areson

Updated: June 18, 2025

The climate appears also to have changed; and the lessened industry and want of perseverance in the inhabitants have brought agriculture completely into decline. In the year 1402 the plague broke out upon the island, and carried off two-thirds of the population. The first printing-press was established at Hoolum, about the year 1530, under the superintendence of the Bishop, John Areson.

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