Sigurverkið

In the royal palace in Copenhagen an Icelandic clockmaker is restoring a splendid old clock when the deposed-in-all-but-name King Christian VII, thought to be mad, drops in on him one evening. The two talk, and the clockmaker recounts how the two people who raised him, his father and the woman who fostered him, were executed in the Westfjords at the command of the previous king, the visitor's father. The eighteenth-century story draws in part on historical fact.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

315 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Iceland, Denmark, 18th century

First published

2021 by Vaka-Helgafell

Author's age

60 when first published

ISBN

9789979226345 (original)