by
Gerður Kristný
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Bloodhoof is the recasting into compulsively spare modern verse of an ancient Eddic poem but this only begins to hint at its attractions. It is a minimalist epic telling of the abduction of Gerdur Gymisdottir from the land of giants to the court of Freyr of the 'wolfgrey eyes', and the subsequent...