Gerður Kristný explores intricate human relationships and the enduring power of familial bonds, often employing her poetic sensibility to capture emotional nuances. Her writing spans poetry, short stories, and novels, with each form utilized to delve into themes of identity, memory, and the human experience. Kristný emphasizes language and its rhythms, crafting evocative and atmospheric prose that draws readers into the inner lives of her characters. Her approach is both intimate and universal, revealing profound truths about life through meticulously constructed imagery.
Bloodhoof is the re-casting into compulsively spare modern verse of an ancient Eddic poem . It is a minimalist epic telling of the abduction of Gerour Gymisdottir from a land of giants and the subsequent events culminating in her return from the court of Freyr of the 'wolf-grey eyes' with her beloved son.
Celebrated Icelandic writer Gerdur Kristny's Drapa is a novel-poem which takes its form from Old Norse shield poetry and its mood from modern Nordic crime. But the poem is no fiction: it is about a real woman's murder in the city of Reykjavik, and, through this lens, about all women's deaths. This is Viking poetry at its most contemporary.
Štrnásťročná Eyja sa s rodičmi práve nasťahovala do nového bytu. Keď sa však pozrie von oknom, vydesí sa. Priamo oproti domu leží veľký cintorín plný náhrobkov a krížov. Nepríjemní susedia...Atmosféru v novom domove nevylepší ani kožené kreslo, ktoré si ocko kúpi v starožitníctve. Hoci sa rodičom kreslo veľmi páči, Eyja od prvej chvíle cíti, že je s ním spojené niečo nevítané – niečo zlé. V novej škole Eyja spozná skvelé dievčatá. Najlepší je však Sölvi – chlapec, ktorý je možno len kamarát a možno aj niečo viac..