Drápa
Gerður Kristný2018
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'Drápa' 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.
Main title:
Drápa / Gerður Kristný ; translated by Rory McTurk.
Author:
Gerður Kristný, authorMcTurk, Rory, translator
Imprint:
Todmorden : Arc Publications, 2018.
Collation:
1 volume
Notes:
Translated from the Icelandic.
ISBN:
9781911469261 (pbk)
Dewey class:
839.6935839.69
LC class:
PT7511.G347
Language:
EnglishIcelandic
Subject:
BRN:
2186109
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