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At the turn of the twentieth century, Sigurlina finds herself in a hopeless situation. She is themotherless daughter of an eccentric father, who expects her to spend her life helping himcatalogue Icelandic archaeological artifacts.But Sigurlina has her own ambitions of education and excitement and after a harrowingexperience, takes fate into her own hands. She disappears from Reykjavik, along with a historicalrelic from her father's collection. Through a series of incredible events, the artifact is unveiled atThe Metropolitan Museum of New York. Meanwhile, officials in Iceland launch their owninvestigation into the theft of the artifact.A tragicomic tale about the preservation of cultural treasure, an intriguing perspective on thecoincidences that have determined their place in history and a thrilling and winding story of thehuman fates that underpin it all.
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Lytton Smith is a poet, professor, and translator from the Icelandic. His most recent translations include works by Kristín Ómarsdóttir, Jón Gnarr, Ófeigur Sigurðsson, Bragi Ólafsson, and Guðbergur Bergsson. His most recent poetry collection, The All-Purpose Magical Tent, was published by Nightboat. Having earned his MFA and PhD from Columbia University, he currently teaches at SUNY Geneseo.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- I
- A symposium in Reykjavík, March 1897. The evening draws to a close.
- A Picnic. Late Summer, 1896.
- Watson held the cylinder, brought it up to one eye as if it were a telescope
- Clasp
- The Arena
- A symposium in Reykjavík, March 1897. At the beginning of the evening.
- A Great Deed
- This shall be mine!
- II
- Burgdorf. Riverside Drive.
- A symposium in Reykjavík, March 1897. The evening draws to a close.
- Sigurlína from Iceland
- Holda
- III
- Werner & Sons
- Sigurlína gasped for breath, hands outstretched trying to help the wounded man.
- IV
- Carlson's Curiosity Shop
- She let the precious object drop into her handbag. Then she ripped out the first pages of the detective story from the loose spine and carefully wiped herself.
- Maggie O'Reilly
- V
- Vinlandia
- Not under any circumstances could the name have passed her by.
- VI
- A symposium in Reykjavík, March 1897. Toward the evening's end.
- A small flower, coal-black.
- Gudrid
- So small, with such a large, tattered hat.
- A Recompense
- VII
- Reykjavík. At the beginning of the summer of 1897.
- About the Author
