Hróbjartur Ríkeyjarson af Dvala was born on Dvali, a small island
(called Duilo on some maps) offshore of the larger island of Frisland
in 1948. As a child he was deeply steeped in the folklore of Frisland, but
after education at the University of Godmec in Historical Cartography, in 1976
he founded the Black Volcano Poets who abandoned the complex (and frankly
inexplicable) metrics of traditional Frislandic verse in favour of open field
metrics and post-surrealist content, with an American Beat tinge. An
accomplished jazz vocalist, he spent a year at Berklee School of Jazz in 1978,
but dropped out to concentrate on writing poetry and experimenting with
hallucinogens. He taught at various universities in the US and, after a time as Visiting Writer at the University of Argleton in North West England, he
returned to Frisland, just in time to become principal spokesman for the Ashen
Revolution of 2002, which dragged Frisland into the twentieth century.
Ríkeyjarson af Dvala was elected to parliament, the Lagadag, representing
Ocibar, where he is a passionate advocate of Frisland’s (apparently hopeless) candidacy
for membership of the European Union.
