Colours, Colour Symbolism, and Social Critique in Halldór Laxness’s Salka Valka

• Published in: Scandinavian-Canadian Studies
• Main Author: Natalie M. Van Deusen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; French
• Published: University of Alberta Library 2009
• Subjects: History of Northern Europe. Scandinavia; DL1-1180; Language and Literature; P; Óseyri; Salka; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.29173/scancan33; https://doaj.org/article/346de69f9c4241d89f0f4527ea88243f

ABSTRACT: Halldór Kiljan Laxness is one of the most successful and renowned authors in all of Iceland. The Nobel Laureate has written many well-known works, one of which is his early novel Salka Valka (1931-1932), a political romance that follows the life of a young girl in a remote Icelandic fishin...