Drapa - A Murder Mystery Paperback
Drapa - A Murder Mystery Paperback In the frozen January of 1988, Gr ta Birgisd ttir, 26-year-old resident of Reykjav k, Iceland, was murdered by her husband, the boxer Bragi lafsson. The couple had…
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Drapa - A Murder Mystery Paperback
In the frozen January of 1988, Gr ta Birgisd ttir, 26-year-old resident of Reykjav k, Iceland, was murdered by her husband, the boxer Bragi lafsson. The couple had been drinking for four days when a physical argument broke out. Bragi claimed the murder was an accident.
This novel-poem, which takes its form from Old Norse shield poetry and its mood from modern Nordic crime, is the product of that interview: a commemoration of one woman's death and, through this lens, of all women's deaths at the hands of violent men.In an epic poem whose conciseness belies a mysterious and deeply powerful narrative, the Devil, in shapeshifting animal form, takes us through the In the end Bragi strangled Gr ta with ropes before going to sleep again.Ten years later, celebrated Icelandic writer Ger ur Kristný interviewed Bragi in the very apartment where the crime had taken place.