Vi ar Hreinsson grew up on a farm in Northern Iceland and studied Icelandic and literary theory in Iceland and Copenhagen. He is an independent literary scholar at the Reykjavik Academy and has taught and lectured on various aspects of Icelandic literary and cultural history both in Iceland and abroad, in Canada, USA and Scandinavia. General Editor of The Complete Sagas of Icelanders I-V (1997), he has also authored an award-winning two-volume biography of Icelandic Canadian poet Stephan G. Stephansson (2002-3). More recently, he has been an environmental activist, written two additional biographies and served as director of the Reykjavik Academy.
This collection of strange and difficult-to-categorize pieces is
comic not in the usual sense, but rather, as Viðar explains in his
excellent introduction, in the sense of reading counter to the
Icelandic family sagas, whose narratives he terms tragic. The
stories here are edgy, subversive and often grim little narratives,
in striking contrast to the humane, wise and sometimes uplifting
family sagas
*The Times Literary Supplement*
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