Drapa

Celebrated Icelandic writer Gerdur Kristny's Drapa is a novel-poem which takes its form from Old Norse shield poetry and its mood from modern Nordic crime. But the poem is no fiction: it is about a real woman's murder in the city of Reykjavik, and, through this lens, about all women's deaths. This is Viking poetry at its most contemporary.

Drapa, scrisa de celebrul scriitor islandez Gerdur Kristny, este un roman-poem care isi ia forma din poezia nordica veche cu scuturi si atmosfera din literatura crima nordica moderna. Dar poemul nu este o fictiune: este vorba despre uciderea unei femei reale in orasul Reykjavik si, prin aceasta perspectiva, despre toate mortile femeilor.