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.
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.
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.