The whispering muse

By Sjón

Subjects: Fiction, sea stories, Argonauts (Greek mythology), Fables, Fiction, Caeneus (Greek mythology), Sea stories

Description: Invited to sail on a Danish merchant ship in 1949, eccentric Icelander Valdimar Haraldsson discovers the second mate on the ship is none other than Caeneus, the hero of Greek mythology, who regales his fellow shipmates with tales of the Golden Fleece.