Bloodhoof by Gerður Kristný, translated by Rory McTurk Raymond Antrobus Torres-Saillant emphasizes: “The present bilingual

Torres-Saillant emphasizes: “The present bilingual edition

a nation that is still under neo-colonial rule by the US

and what we owe them by way of nourishment and light

there is a gentle wisdom

Musical and moving

Bloodhoof by Gerður Kristný, translated by Rory McTurk Raymond Antrobus Torres-Saillant emphasizes: “The present bilingualBloodhoof is the re casting into compulsively spare modern verse of an ancient Eddic poem but this only begins to hint at its attractions. It is a minimalist epic telling of the abduction of Gerdur Gymisdottir from the land of giants to the court of Freyr of the 'wolf grey eyes', and the subsequent events culminating in the birth of her son and her hopes of being saved by her own kin. It is full of iron hard rocks and ice, serpents in the breast