Career
His family moved to Norway in 1983, where he lived for seven years. Since 2005, Kristjánsson has been based in London. Swords of Good Men, a Viking fantasy novel, is his first novel released in 2013, and the first instalment of the Valhalla Saga.
The second part of the saga is called Blood Will Follow and a planned third part Path of the Gods.
He graduated with a Bachelor in English from the University of Iceland in 2010, his thesis was on editing a novel, supported by two 300-page manuscripts of the book that would ultimately become Swords of Good Men.