Hlutskipti Social Classes & Economic Disparity They reveal a fascinating story

They reveal a fascinating story of what people owned and how their possession represented people's place in Icelandic society at the time

It is based on real events that took place in the farm Kambur in 1827 when four men tied and beat up the residents and stole their belongings

It is among the oldest translated theological texts in Iceland and was for centuries the most read text in the country

Most of all though this is of course a family history

It came to Iceland from Norway in the fourteenth century and both countries fought it by enforcing a straight quarantine

Hlutskipti Social Classes & Economic Disparity They reveal a fascinating storyIn the year of 1969, the family in the Swedish house were forced to watch their father escorted out of their home by the police. Soon after that, their mother left one night with her fiance, taking with her only the three youngest children while the other four where left in charge of the welfare authorities. Many years later the author of this book was reunited with her mother and lived with her in great poverty. ISBN 9789935521873 Authors Jn