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The Old Man and His Sons by Heðin Brú, John F. West (Translator), Heoin Bru

The Old Man and His Sons - Heoin Bru,  John F. West (Translator)

bookshelves: one-penny-wonder, paper-read, translation, danish-root, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, published-1940, autumn-2011

Read from November 07 to 08, 2011

 

 Translated from the Faroese by John F West

Opening - A school of blackfish is in Seyvrágs Fjord - two or three hundred small whales, swimming silently round in little groups, and longing to be backin the broad ocean again, for this is not the way they intended to go.


Woolgathering



Peat cutting



Pilot whale hunting.