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, Þingeyri) is an Icelandic writer and journalist. She lives in Reykjavík.

Vilborg Davíðsdóttir
Born	(1965-09-03) September 3, 1965 (age 59) Þingeyri, Ísafjarðarbær, Westfjords, Iceland
Years active	1993–present
Website
davidsdottir.is/English.html

Education

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.

Career

Much of Vilborg's fiction focuses on medieval European history, often with a focus on women and on Iceland and the surrounding area.^[1][2]

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. Her 1997 novel Eldfórnin follows a 14th-century nun.^[3]

Her 2005 novel Hrafninn explores contact between Norse Vikings and Inuit.^[1]

She has written a historical fiction trilogy about Auður Djúpúðga (Aud the Deep-Minded), one of Iceland's most famous female settlers.^[1] In 2019, Vilborg led a tour of Tiree in the Hebrides, retracing the path of the protagonist.^[4]

Vilborg's book Ástin, drekinn og dauðinn (On Love, Dragons and Dying) (2015), was a more personal story, following 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

• Land næturinnar (2023)^[5]
• Undir Yggdrasil (2020)^[6]
• Blóðug jörð (2017)
• Ástin, drekinn og dauðinn (2015)
• Vígroði (2012)
  • Published in English as Crimson Sky^[1]
• Auður (2009)
  • Published in English as Audur^[1]
• Hrafninn (2005)
  • Published in English as The Raven^[1]
• Felustaðurinn (2002)
• Korku saga - Við Urðarbrunn og Nornadómur (2001)
• Galdur (2000)
  • Published in English as On the Cold Coasts (2012)^[7][8]
• Eldfórnin (1997)
  • Published in English as The Sacrifice
• Nornadómur (1994)^[9]
  • Published in English as The Witches' Judgement
• Við Urðarbrunn (1993)
  • Published in English as The Well of Fates

Awards and honours

• Icelandic IBBY^[3]
• The Reykjavik Educational Council Prize^[3]