Vilborg Davíðsdóttir

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Vilborg.

Vilborg Davíðsdóttir (born 3 September 1965 in Þingeyri) is an Icelandic writer and journalist. She lives in Reykjavík.

Vilborg has a diploma in journalism, and a BA in English and Ethnology. She wrote her MA thesis in Ethnology about oral tradition and storytelling.

Her novels The Well of Fates (1993) and The Witches' Judgement (1994) concern a slave in the Viking era and are influenced by the Icelandic sagas. She has also written a trilogy, historical fiction about Auður Djúpúðga (Aud the Deep-Minded), one of Iceland's most famous female settlers. Vilborg's book Ástin, drekinn og dauðinn (On Love, Dragons and Dying) (2015) is her most personal story yet. There she writes the story of her husband's journey with terminal brain cancer, and her first year as a widow, during which both her mother-in-law and her father died as well.

Some of her books have been translated and published in The United States, Egypt, Germany and Faroe Islands.

Works

• Blóðug jörð (2017)
• Ástin, drekinn og dauðinn (2015)
• Vígroði (2012)
• Auður (2009)
• Hrafninn (2005)
• Felustaðurinn (2002)
• Korku saga - Við Urðarbrunn og Nornadómur (2001)
• Galdur (2000)
• Eldfórnin (1997) (The Sacrifice)
• Nornadómur (1994) (The Witches' Judgement)
• Við Urðarbrunn (1993) (The Well of Fates)

External links

• Site on Icelandic writers

• Vilborg's website

• Interview with Vilborg, by Icelandic Literature Center

• Podcast interview by composer Linda Buckley and producer Helen Shaw