An Old Norse Manuscript to Die and Kill for: Víktor Arnar Ingólfsson’s Flateyjargáta

• Main Author: BENATI, CHIARA
• Other Authors: A. Cipolla, J. Quinn, O.E. Haugen, I. Felice, M. Rossi Corradini, M. Malm, M. Bampi, M.C. Lombardi, A. Zironi, J. Zernack, H. O'Donoghue, C. Benati, C. Larrington, F. Ferrari, A. Cipolla, J. Quinn, Benati, Chiara
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Brepols 2016
• Subjects: Breiðafjörður; Flatey
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11567/839843

Under many respects Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson’s Flateyjargáta follows the standard pattern of crime fiction: a famous Danish philologist is found dead on one of the uninhabited islands in Breiðafjörður; an unwilling and inexperienced newly graduated notary is sent to Flatey to investigate the matter....