Ferðalok

Built around Jónas Hallgrímsson, Iceland's national poet, and strange happenings in his native Öxnadalur during his boyhood, the novel has him break his leg in a night-time fall on a stair and lie mortally ill in hospital, remembering joys and sorrows, a shepherd boy's grim fate and old loves.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

267 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Iceland, 19th century

First published

2024 by Vaka-Helgafell

Author's age

63 when first published

ISBN

9789979228417 (original)