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Friday 6 July 2012

Celebrated poet and novelist Sjón discusses 'The Whispering Muse', a novel that combines recent history with Nordic myth in the life of Valdimar Haraldsson.
Joining a Danish merchant ship en route to the Black Sea, he encounters the mythical hero Caeneus, who entrances his fellow travellers with the tale of the Argonauts' legendary quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece.