Bloodhoof by Gerður Kristný, translated by Rory McTurk Raymond Antrobus loss and language

loss and language

Musical and moving

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Davies has dedicated much of his life as a writer so far to finding innovative ways of saying less

Bloodhoof by Gerður Kristný, translated by Rory McTurk Raymond Antrobus loss and languageBloodhoof is the re casting 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 'wolf grey eyes', and the subsequent events culminating in the birth of her son and her hopes of being saved by her own kin. It is full of iron hard rocks and ice, serpents in the breast