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From the mouth of the whale / Sjón ; translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb.

Title
From the mouth of the whale / Sjón ; translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb.
Author
Sjón, 1962-
Publication
London : Telegram, 2011.

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Cribb, Victoria
Description
271 p.; 20 cm.
Summary
"The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty and cruelty. Men of science marvel over a unicorn's horn, poor folk worship the Virgin in secret and both books and men are burnt. Jónas Pálmason, a poet and self-taught healer, has been condemned to exile for heretical conduct, having fallen foul of the local magistrate. Banished to a barren island, Jónas recalls his exorcism of a walking corpse on the remote Snjáfjöll coast, the frenzied massacre of innocent Basque whalers at the hands of local villagers and the deaths of his three children."--Back cover.
Uniform Title
Rökkurbýsnir. English
Alternative Title
Rökkurbýsnir.
Subject
  • 1600-1699
  • Superstition > Fiction
  • Heresy > Fiction
  • Iceland > Social conditions > 17th century > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Icelandic fiction – Translations into English.
  • Historical fiction
  • Fiction
Language (note)
  • Translated from the Icelandic.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9781846590832
  • 1846590833
LCCN
^^2011431884
OCLC
  • 709670460
  • SCSB-12227776
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library