Description

Sometimes harsh, sometimes uproarious, and often fascinating, Iceland’s Bell by Nobel Laureate Halldór Laxness reaches once an upgrading of the standard Icelandic tale and a corrosive cultural satire. In the close of the 17th-century, Iceland is definitely an oppressed Danish nest, struggling under severe plague, famine, and poverty. A player and accused wire-crook called Jon Hreggvidsson makes a bawdy laugh concerning the Danish master and right after finds himself a fugitive charged with the homicide of the king’s hangman.In the decades that follow, the hapless but strong criminal Hreggvidsson becomes a resale entangled in political and individual issues playing on a much grander scale. Key among these may be the star-crossed romance between Snaefridur, referred to as “Iceland’s Sunlight,” an attractive, headstrong young noblewoman, and Arnas Arnaeus, the antiquarian, an aristocrat whose worldly method covers an intense commitment to his downtrodden countrymen.