Undirtitill Gandreiðarinnar er Sorgarleikr í mrgum þáttum. Í raun er það gamanleikrit, þar sem hfundur hendir gaman að fornbókmenntum og hetjudýrkun þeirra á óvæginn og skoplegan hátt. Meðal persóna eru goðin Óðinn, Þór og Freyja, en einnig koma við sgu Egill Skallagrímsson og meira að segja Lúsífer sjálfur, gjarnan kallaður "djfsi". Leikritið er hrð ádeila á samtíma hfundar, ekki síst Dani og stjórn þeirra á landinu. Benedikt Sveinbjarnarson Grndal (1826-1907) fæddist að Bessastðum á Álftanesi. Þó hann hafi verið einn tíu systkina fékk hann góða menntun og fór til Kaupmannahafnar í nám þegar hann hafði aldur til. Hann lauk ekki námi og sneri aftur til Reykjavíkur, en endaði með að fara aftur í nám til Kaupmannahafnar sj árum síðar. Þar kynntist hann skrautlegu fólki og endaði með að ferðast til Belgíu og taka kaþólska trú. Eftir það lauk hann loks prófi í norrænum fræðum við Kaupmannahafnarháskóla, en hann var fyrstur Íslendinga til þess. Benedikt hneigðist mjg að list og náttúrufræðum og var meðal annars einn af stofnendum Hins íslenska náttúrufræðifélags. Eftir hann liggja ómetanlegar teikningar af lífríki Íslands. Hann var einnig afbragðsgott skáld og orti bæði ljóð, skrifaði leikrit og sgur. Verk hans bera sterkan brag af samtímanum en eru undir miklum áhrifum af íslenskum fornbókmenntum, oft á býsna kómískan hátt.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I made a pilgrimage to the International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough, Tennessee, in 1998. I was seeking enlightenment. I had begun to see stories help galvanize an organization around a defined business goal. #2 The story of the Zambia health worker was a simple example of how World Bank staff and managers could envision a different future for the organization. But I began to wonder how the tool of narrative could be used even more effectively. #3 The strength of analysis is that it can cut through the fog of myth, gossip, and speculation to get to the hard facts. However, this strength is also a weakness. Analysis doesn't offer a route to the heart, and that's where you must go if you are to motivate people to take action and do so with energy and enthusiasm. #4 I learned that telling the story in a traditional manner, with a beginning, middle, and end, would not be effective with my audience. I wanted them to focus on their own situations, not on Zambia. I decided to tell the story in a minimalistic manner, without detail and texture.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Western mind has lost paradise, which was the first home of humanity. We have been told that purpose and value are ours alone to create, without Satan and God. #2 The rise of science and the technological explosion has driven us to our secular worldview. We still have a spiritual hunger, however, and we must find anew our place in the universe. #3 The story of our loss of paradise is familiar, but it is worth repeating. Until Copernicus, we believed ourselves to be at the center of the universe. But after Newton, the laws of mechanics not only derived tides and orbits, but unleashed on the Western mind a clockwork universe. #4 The theory of evolution by natural selection, which Darwin introduced, shattered the belief that species are fixed by the squares of Linnean taxonomy. They evolve from one another. Natural selection acting on random variation, not God or some principle of Rational Morphology, accounts for the similarity of limb and fin.

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d'un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d'origine.