Vilborg Davíðsdóttir

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

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.

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.

Her 2005 novel Hrafninn explores contact between Norse Vikings and Inuit.

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) Undir Yggdrasil (2020) Blóðug jörð (2017)Ástin, drekinn og dauðinn (2015)Vígroði (2012) Published in English as Crimson Sky Eldfórnin (1997) Published in English as The SacrificeNornadómur (1994) Published in English as The Witches' JudgementVið Urðarbrunn (1993) Published in English as The Well of Fates''

Awards and honours

Icelandic IBBY The Reykjavik Educational Council Prize