Martin Regal lives in Reykjavik and has been teaching at the University of Iceland for over thirty years. He specializes in drama and is currently completing the volume on tragedy for the Routledge New Critical Idiom series. His translations of Gisli‘s Saga and the Saga of the Sworn Brothers have appeared in Penguin editions. His latest translation project is a book-length selection of poems by Sigurður Pálsson.