After a publishing hiatus of more than a decade, W.D. Valgardson returned to adult fiction for What the Bear Said: Skald Tales from New Iceland (Turnstone 2011), a collection of short stories that was launched in Gimli, Manitoba, centre of all things Icelandic-Canadian. The stories capture the experiences of Icelandic settlers in Canada as W.P. Kinsella's mentor at UVic, Bill Valgardson, presents new myths and legends in the old style of eddas and sagas.