Hnefi eða vitstola orð
Hnefi eða vitstola orð (in the author's translation, Fist or words bereft of sense) is the sixth poetry book by Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl, published by Mál og menning in 2013.
It is explicitly about the 2008 Icelandic financial crisis and associated Kitchenware Revolution and comprises 137 poems, plus a foreword, itself in sonnet form.
In the estimation of Jakob Bjarnar, 'Eiríkur Örn certainly earns his writer's stipend; he tears up the workings of poetry while he monitors the value of the króna fall to nothing.
[2] Eiríkur Örn produced a video version of parts of the collection as a contribution to the Litla ljóðahátíðin 2009.
Many of the poems appeared, in Icelandic or in translation, in journals before or after the publication of the book:
(publ. Mál og Menning )