Icelandic Poetry?

[bigburlybiker]

Hi,

I am new here. I found the site while looking for English translations of Icelandic love poetry and hoped that someone here might be able to help me out? I am getting married in Iceland later this year and thought it would be great to have an Icelandic poem read at the wedding, I have lots of English poems I love but I just wanted it something a bit different.

Thank you in advance.

:)

[LBM]

Well, to give you a starting point, Bjork wrote some amazing lyrics about love and similar things that are easily poetry. Also, Sigur Ros I think are Icelandic, and their lyrics are beautiful.

But otherwise, I would say Birgir Sigurðsson (pen name: Sjón)
http://www.lyrikline.org/index.php?id=162&L=1&author=ss00&show=Poems&cHash=b698c319aa
There are english translations on there, his poem "love poem" is very sweet.

[bigburlybiker]

Lovely, thank you. I will have a look.

[B-Mental]

I was thinking that maybe one or two poems or songs may be found in the Icelandic sagas...I've only read Njal's Saga, many moons ago, but thats my two bits.

[Eels]

Isn't the prose/poetic edda in Old-Icelandic too?