Daughter of Fire A Portrait of Iceland Author:Katharine Scherman Daughter of Fire' unfolds both a natural and a human history of the mid-Atantic island... from her first emergence out of the ocean... through the shaping of her landscape by the violent forces of volcanoes, glaciers, storms, and ocean, to the formation of her remarkable farmers' republic by Viking warriors of the tenth century and her t... more »urbulent history from that day to the present. Scherman focuses on the body of literature which flowered at the time of Europe's Dark Ages: the famous Icelandic histories, skaldic verse, family sagas, and the incomparable Eddas.« less