For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. A ...

and ultimately to the publication of her first book of poetry translations. Britton, a SUNY Geneseo Class of 2018 graduate, recently released “A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder” by Icelandic poet Brynja ...

The verse above, from the Icelandic poem Hávamál, is just a small part of a collection of Old Norse poems found in the Codex Regius manuscript. Written in the 13th century, the Codex Regius is the ...

“Previously, the theory was that Iceland was so dark and barren that the Icelanders had to fill their lives with storytelling and poetry to compensate for this. But Icelanders were certainly part of ...