Jökull Jakobsson is one of the most important playwrights of Iceland. Jón Vidar Jónsson, who edited his collected plays, even goes so far as to assert that Jökull Jakobsson was the first real playwright the nation had, because his predecessors had not been nearly as effective dramatists or because they wrote for Danish theaters in Copenhagen, where they could have wider audiences. As with the Icelandic writers before him, Jökull was not able to earn a living in Iceland from writing plays. Jón Vidar Jónsson says in the introduction to his 1994 edition of Jökull Jakobsson's plays that even though Jökull had various other jobs, he was primarily a playwright, and his plays will keep his name alive. Frída Á. Sigurdardóttir states in her book Leikrit J...