Ármann Jakobsson is Professor of Medieval Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland and a published novelist. In the past he has been a postman, a high school teacher, a journalist and critic, a reality TV star, and a political activist. He has invented names for the streets of Reykjavík and for popular board games, written Old Norse dialogue for a B-movie, and run a radical web journal. Mainly he loves to write and has many obscure publications to his name.