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Iceland
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A chill wind blew across the frozen water. There was no marker to show where the land ended and the sea began, except for the blocks of solid sea, where the water had frosted over, shifted, then frozen
again. Tiny slabs of ice squatted, stacked like tombstones.
We walked out onto the crusted water. The ice groaned under our feet, the rumble of an Arctic bear, warning as the dark water beneath shifted. We stopped. My heart beat in my throat. I waited for the crack of the ice, the roar of the wate
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― The Glass Woman
― The Glass Woman
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This land will kill you, if it can. We Icelanders are forged of different metal from the soft foreigners – even the Barbary pirates did not stay long. Have you ever known a Danish trader to winter here from choice?’
I shrugged. How did this concern me, or the people’s morbid curiosity?
‘We seem strong, Jón, all of us, but we are like grass – we bend so the wind will not break us. You are like the sea: you surge forward again and again. See yourself now. Your parents are dead, your croft is falli
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― The Glass Woman
― The Glass Woman
The term Viking (from Old Norse víkingr) is customarily used to refer to the Norse (Scandinavian…more
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A place to discuss books by Icelandic authors and books set in Iceland.
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In this group you will find a daily post of a chapter from the Viking and Norse sagas. This grou…more
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Per tutti i fan della letteratura del nord Europa e di questa elegante casa editrice
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