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Get Your Read On: Wayward Heroes & The Creator
If you want the joy of reading a piece of Icelandic literature without the hassle of learning Icelandic, then these two novels, now translated into English, are a great place to start. Halldór Laxness – Wayward Heroes When ‘Wayward Heroes’ (‘Gerpla’, in…
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Get Your Read On: Where To Start In The Icelandic Book Store
For the unacquainted, it can be hard to know where to start with Icelandic literature. Should you begin with a weighty medieval saga—and if so, which one? Should it be a Laxness tome? Maybe a slim volume of concise, lyrical fiction by…