Sveigur

Guðmundur the poet grows up in hard circumstances but enters the service of monks, with whom he learns to read and write. As a grown man he falls in with the leading chieftains of the Age of the Sturlungs, Sturla Sighvatsson among them. He survives the turbulent thirteenth century and ends his days close to men of power and the foremost poets of the age, in a time whose dangers and fears of the end of the world recall our own.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

207 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Iceland, 13th century

First published

2002 by Mál og menning

Author's age

77 when first published

ISBN

9789979323716 (original)