The latest addition to my humble book collection arrived in the post yesterday morning … just in time for Christmas.
Internationally acclaimed author Nancy Marie Brown suggested that I should add Alan Boucher’s The Land Seekers to my list of books on Auðr/Unnr djúp(a)uðga. The book was published for the very first time in 1964 in the Time, Place & Action series of publisher André Deutsch. Alan Boucher (1918-1996) wrote a great number of children’s books, of which five are set in the Viking Age. Before writing fiction for children, he specialized in Icelandic studies at Trinity College in Cambridge (UK) and won a two-year award for Northern Research. He was a frequent visitor to Iceland before he settled there permanently with his Icelandic wife Áslaug Þórarinsdóttir.
Sofie Vanherpen 