Sigrún Pálsdóttir

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Sigrún Pálsdóttir


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Reykjavík, Iceland
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Sigrún Pálsdóttir is a writer and historian. Born in Reykjavík in 1967, she completed a PhD on the history of ideas at the University of Oxford in 2001, after which she was a research fellow and lecturer at the University of Iceland. She worked as the editor of Saga, the principal peer-reviewed journal for Icelandic history, from 2008 to 2016, and she has been a freelance writer since 2007. She first came to prominence as a writer of historical biographies. Her debut in 2010 was the acclaimed Þóra biskups (Thora: A Bishop’s Daughter), followed by Ferðasaga (Uncertain Seas) in 2010, the story of a young couple and their three children who were killed while sailing from New York to Iceland aboard a ship torpedoed by a German submarine in 1944 ...more

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History. A Mess.

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Delluferðin

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Blái pardusinn

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Sigrún og Friðgeir - Ferðasaga

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Dyngja

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Þóra biskups og raunir ísle...

3.79 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2010
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Men

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Il ricamo

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