While staying at the abbey Laxness practiced self-study, read books, and studied French, Latin, theology and philosophy. In 1923 he was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church, adopting the surname Laxness after the homestead on which he was raised and adding the name Kiljan, the Icelandic name of Irish martyr Saint Killian).
In 1922, Halldór joined the Abbaye S aint-Maurice -et -S aint-Maur in Clervaux, Luxembourg, where the monks followed the rules of Saint Benedict of Nursia. By the time his first novel, Barn náttúrunnar ( Child of Nature), was published in 1919 he had already begun his travels on the European continent. He attended the technical school in Reykjavík from 1915 to 1916 and had an article published in the newspaper Morgunblaðið in 1916. He started to read books and write stories at an early age. When he was three his family moved to the Laxnes farm in Mosfellssveit parish. Halldór Guðjónsson was born in Reykjavík in 1902.
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