6/8/2023 0 Comments Heimsljós by Halldór Laxness![]() ![]() ![]() You know straight away there is something rather odd about this boy, he seems different from all others and is constantly beaten and attacked by his two older brothers who are vying for control over him, he humps the hay, herds the sheep, through the worst Icelandic weather imaginable. ![]() Raised on a farm with a foster family that lies by the shore, he would use the power of the elements to see beyond what everyone else can see, to some greater place, to see a bright beacon of light through his darkness, "that's it!, I will one day be a great poet". He would later declare looking back on his youth "you know there was a time when I was the unhappiest child in the whole of Iceland!". The boy in question is one Olafur Karason, an unloved child, placed in the hands of the local parish in northern Iceland after being abandoned in a sack by his mother. ![]()
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