Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Yrsa Sigurdardóttir is an award-winning author of five children's novels who is also a leading Icelandic civil engineer directing one of the largest hydro construction projects in Europe-an unusual assignment for an Icelandic woman. When she is ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Evelyn McDonnell
Wearing thick glasses, speaking in her thick Icelandic accent, and, well, seeming a touch thick, Bjork stormed the public consciousness in 2000 as an unlikely heroine in the experimental musical film Dancer In the Dark. Icelandic, Iconoclastic, ... [... more]
Random House |
Philip Roughton
Sometimes grim, sometimes uproarious, and always captivating, by Nobel Laureate Halldór Laxness is at once an updating of the traditional Icelandic saga and a caustic social satire. At the close of the 17th century, Iceland is an oppressed Danish . [... more]
Random House |
Halldor Laxness
Halldor Laxness was born near Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1902. His first novel was published when he was seventeen. The undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction, and one of the outstanding novelists of the century, he wrote more than sixty ... [... more]
Random House |
Olaf Olafsson
Olaf Olafsson was born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1962. He studied physics as a Wien Scholar at Brandeis University. He is the author of three previous novels, From the acclaimed Icelandic author of The Journey Home comes a haunting collection of ... [... more]
Random House |
Colloquial Icelandic: The Complete Course for Beginners
 CD version, available? Apparently not...: I tried to order the CD version of this set (isn't that what's offered here..?) a week ago. Amazon sent out the cassette version. Sent that back, Amazon sent me a replacement--the cassette version again. When I [... more]
CDN$25.99
Amazon CA |
Beginner's Icelandic With 2 Audio Cds
Author: Helga Himisdottir Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 439.6983421 EAN: 9780781811910 Edition: Pap/Com ISBN: 0781811910 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: 2008-08-26 [... more]
CDN$33.95
Amazon CA |
Eirik the Red and other Icelandic Sagas
A Very Nice Compendium of Some of the Lesser Sagas: Gwyn Jones here gives us his very smooth and stylish translations of some of the lesser, and lesser known, sagas in the Icelandic literary opus. From the title piece, "Eirik the Red's Saga", [... more]
CDN$10.95
Amazon CA |
Colloquial Icelandic: The Complete Course for Beginners
CD version, available? Apparently not...: I tried to order the CD version of this set (isn't that what's offered here..?) a week ago. Amazon sent out the cassette version. Sent that back, Amazon sent me a replacement--the cassette version again. When I [... more]
CDN$52.04
Amazon CA |
Teach Yourself Icelandic Complete Course (Book Only)
Waste of Time: Although Glendening's book is full of useful grammatical information, this book is not very user-friendly. The shortage of Icelandic learning materials will naturally guide an eager learner to this book, and the book is fine and serves a [... more]
CDN$20.95
Amazon CA |
Last Rituals: An Icelandic Novel of Secret Symbols, ...
More Educational Than Action Packed: Icelandic lawyer, Thóra Gudmundsdottir is puzzled when German resident, Amelia Guntlieb, wants to hire her to find out who really murdered her son, Harald. The Guntlieb family believes the police arrested the [... more]
CDN$27.95
Amazon CA |
Icelandic English English Icelandic Concise Dictionary
Don't buy it: useless: Most people who study Icelandic, buy this little book, but it's absolutely useless, because: *1. It contains too few words. Only 5,000 one way (a good dictionairy should contain at least 50,000). *2. There are no inflection [... more]
CDN$13.50
Amazon CA |
