Under the GlacierBy: Halldor Laxness Series: Vintage International Nobel laureate Halldr Laxnesss Under the Glacier is a one of a kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Snfells Glacier, who, among other things, appears to have given up burying the dead. But once he arrives, the emissary finds that this dereliction