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 celebrului scriitor islandez Gerdur Kristny este un roman-poezie care isi ia forma din poezia scut nordica veche si starea sa din crimele nordice moderne. Dar poemul nu este fictiune: este vorba despre uciderea unei femei adevarate in orasul Reykjavik si, prin aceasta lentila, despre moartea tuturor femeilor.