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This is Gerður Kristný's third collection from Arc and the third of the trilogy which already comprises the highly-acclaimed Bloodhoof and Drápa. In all three poetic sequences, the poet employs the archaic form of the saga to conjure up razor-sharp dark and bewildering images of the fates of women in a world where the boundaries between life and death and what lies beyond are unclear. In this particular sequence, Gerður Kristný gives a voice t...

Celebrated Icelandic writer Gerdur Kristny's Drapa is a novel-poem which takes its form from Old Norse shield poetry and its mood from modern Nordic crime. But the poem is no fiction: it is about a real woman's murder in the city of Reykjavik, and, through this lens, about all women's deaths. This is Viking poetry at its most contemporary.

In the frozen January of 1988, Gréta Birgisdóttir, 26-year-old resident of Reykjavík, Iceland, was murdered by her husband, the boxer Bragi Ólafsson. Bragi claimed the murder was an accident. The couple had been drinking for four days when a physical argument broke out. In the end Bragi strangled Gréta with ropes before going to sleep again.Ten years later, celebrated Icelandic writer Gerður Kristny¿ interviewed Bragi in the very apartment whe...

Bloodhoof is the re-casting into compulsively spare modern verse of an ancient Eddic poem - but this only begins to hint at its attractions. It is a minimalist epic telling of the abduction of Gerdur Gymisdottir from the land of giants to the court of Freyr of the 'wolf-grey eyes', and the subsequent events culminating in the birth of her son and her hopes of being saved by her own kin.It is full of iron-hard rocks and ice, serpents in the bre...

This volume contains poetry by Icelandic writer Gerdur Kristny, in a translation into Esperanto by Baldur Ragnarsson. Gerdur Kristny is one of Iceland's best-known poets, laureate of many awards, such as the Halldor Laxness Literary Award. --- Gerdur Kristny naskighis en 1970. Post universitataj studoj pri la franca lingvo, literaturo kaj amaskomuni kado kaj sekva trejnado en Danlando shi laboris dum kelkaj jaroj kiel redaktoro de revuo, antau...