Icelander

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As the author of Icelander seems to assume at least some knowledge of Magnus Valison’s The Memoirs of Emily Bean, I have seen fit to scatter a few explanatory footnotes wherever I felt that readers unfamiliar with that series might benefit from a bit of background elucidation. The names and biographies given in the table of Dramatis Personae that immediately follows this preface refer only to the fictionalized characters who appeared in that series and no libel is intended toward any of the real-life persons on whom they were originally based. For information regarding the disputed authorship of this novel, please see my afterword.

Emily Bean-Ymirson: That most extraordinary of women, whose diaries formed the basis of Magnus Valison’s celebrated series of books. An anthropologist by profession, a criminologist by birth, she—along with her irascible but dashing husband Jon Ymirson—repeatedly demonstrated extreme proficiency in both areas until her untimely demise in 1985. Her daughter, Our Heroine, is the central figure of Icelander.

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