Books by Egill Skallagrimsson

Ian Crockatt has published several collections of his own poetry. Original Myths, which includes etchings by the Scottish artist Paul Fleming, was short-listed for the Saltire Society's Scottish Book of the Year Award in 2000. He has been a prizewinner in a number of national literary competitions, and was awarded Writer's Bursaries by the Scottish Arts Council in 2004 and 2008. He has just completed a PhD thesis at Aberdeen University, focusing on the translation of Old Norse skaldic poetry.Ian Crockatt won the prestigious 2013 Schlegel-Tieck Society of Authors Prize (for translation into English of a full-length German work of literary merit) for his translation of selected poems by Rilke (Arc 2011).