Morris in Iceland
Puncher & Wattmann, $27 pb, 238 pp
Keeping up with Jones
by Adam Rivett •
When it came to Iceland, Monty Python, as always, had the properly irreverent idea. Their version of Njal’s Saga was a horrendous case of interrupted narrative. It took ten minutes for their ‘very exciting Icelandic saga’ to get started, bogged down as it was in endless biblical begetting, and when things did kick off, the whole sketch unwittingly collapsed into an extended advertisement for a sleepy British town named Malden.
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Morris in Iceland
by Alex Jones
Puncher & Wattmann, $27 pb, 238 pp
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