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(links to illustrated
short stories
by Guðrún, the author of Óðsmál
(Odsmal)):
Sál bróður (sal brodur) Soul
of a Brother
Tröllabarn
(trollabarn) Trolls in Iceland
     
Goþrún (Gothrun, gods'
rune, the secret divine whispering))
Guðrún Kristín
Magnúsdóttir
born 27th of September
1939
Nickname: Gauja or Göia (Goia) -- (pronounced
somewhat like French Geuilla or Spanish Goya)
    
In the University of Iceland Guðrún
(Gudrun) studied Pedagogy and Philosophy,
after six years in
Commercial School,
attended music-school and ballet-school for
some years,
art school for four years, diploma in
ceramics,
has taken part in several art exhibitions and art
performances,
also price-winning for design of souvenirs, plays
on stage, short stories and other achievments
diploma in script
making and film direction,
part time actress (stage, TV,
film).
a former photo model, manequein,
a keen biker (now
owning a Kawasaki Ninja).
on the photo:
Freyja,
(copper, archeological finding in Sweden);
Goia
on the racer Yamaha DT
(photo: Jim Smart, Iceland)
As a writer and artist for the last
decades, Guðrún (Gudrun) has created several
illustrated children's books,
radio- and television stories and
-plays,
delightfully illustrated reading exercises for young
kids, -- search in links on left side of the index page (home),
illustrated short stories
published in several magazines,
multimedia art pieces,
was
Iceland's representative in Copenhagen 1997,
was granted first
prize for a full length play for stage:
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first and second prizes granted for
short stories for teenagers,
a book of these (along with others
of her stories) being published
(author's illustrations),
the
great book ÓÐSMÁL (Odsmal) on the profoundness
of heathenry,
--- a theosophical study of the northern
cultural inheritance ---
was published in 1996 by Guðrún's
(Gudrun's) firm Freyjukettir, Freyja's cats, - a non-profit
enterprice for the understanding of heathenry.
Skírnismál
(Skirnismal), the ancient kvæði (kvaedi) of the Edda
has been published as a script (in Icelandic) meant for school
kids to be performed before yule holiday season or during
yule-tide. Skírnismál (Skirnismal is the age-old
heathen yule-ritual.
Yule are at winter solstise on the 20th,
21st or 22nd of December, different between years.)
For
Skírnismál (Skirnismal) in English click here:
Skirnismal-ritual for kids. No
doubt grown-ups will love it too.
Goia / Guðrún has
designed a road sign for the cemetary for heathen men (public
service sign),
Guðrún also wants heathens to build
their own cremation ship.
A colorful background:
teacher
of ceramics in preliminary schools and art school.
worked on an
Icelandic Gun Boat;
worked as a fisherman on small
boats,
partly brought up on a farm, partly in the capital town
of Iceland, Reykjavík (Reykjavik),
lived abroad (in
other European countries) for some months and years,
is a
mother and a grandmother,
having lived the changes of society
since World War II,
member of Hagþenkir (Hagthenkir)
(association of authors of educational material for kids and the
common man).
Guðrún (Gudrun) is a goði*) (godi,
godhi, gydhja) for heathen men in the southern part of Iceland.
      
       
    
*) Guðrún / Göia is
a goði for heathens in the southern part of Iceland where her
grandfathers and grandmothers come from.
 If
you have a map of Iceland you can find the goðorð (godord)
from glacier river from Mýrdalsjökull (Myrdalsjokull,
Myrdal's-glacier): Markarfljót (Markarfljot) in
Rangárvallasýsla (Rangarvallasysla), a district
named Undir fjöllum, stretching east covering the
whole
of Vestur-Skaftafellssýsla (Vest-Skaftafellssysla) to the
glacier river Skeiðará (Skeidara) that runs from
Vatnajökull (Vatnajokull).
Being a goði (godi) implies
that the person is capable of giving knowledge to others about vor
forni siður (sidur; our olden cultural customs or
traditions),
ásatrú (asatru), heathenry, its
meaning and essence in theory and in practical use.
Goia
(Guðrún (Gudrun)) is composing audio/video (VHS, DVD)
on 432 interesting topics on vor siður (vor sidur, vor sidr,
our olden custom,
heathenry, paganry, ásatrú)
meant for kids and teenagers. Links on index page (home):
audio-video,
the abyss of the symbolic language of edda
No
doubt grown-ups will love them too.
the abyss
of the symbolic language of edda; on DVDs, and soon launged here
video/audio
They come in Icelandic VHS and in
Scottish-accent-English DVD and MPEG on this website.
This work is inspiring for our
better understanding and the need for spiritually-oriented
research on vor forni siður
--
run by heathens that want to understand.
(do you see what i mean? )
Vor siður is not
a museum piece, forni siður is not primitive and
stupid, it is a beautiful living tradition,
profond, ancient
and ever young, much needed and practical wisdom and science in
the world of men to-day.
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