drying-days

Updated: May 21, 2025

Snjolfur's wife worked at fish-drying for the factor in the summer months, but good drying-days could not be counted on and the money was not much. She lived just long enough to bring little Snjolfur into the world, and the last thing she did was to decide his name. From then on, father and son lived alone in the cabin. Little Snjolfur had vague memories of times of desperate misery.

Various - Seven Icelandic Short Stories