Icelandic Nobility

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"And the longer I compared my logical thoughts on the annihilation of love to my memories of two snow-white, silky-soft hands ... the more palpable was the conviction in my heart that my hands would be totally incapable of caressing the neck of any other woman but hers." ICELANDIC NOBILITY relates how Thórdarson falls in love with a fellow lodger during the winter of 1911-12. Too shy and awkward to court her then, he gets a labouring job in her home fjord the following summer to pursue his suit with her there. After a comical and disastrous attempt to woo his beloved, however, he flees north to the herring wharfs of northern Iceland, where he meets an array of extraordinary, colourful characters from whom he learns a great deal about the realities of love, life, sex and poetry. In September he sets sail for home, but leaves the ship in the far north of the Westfjords and embarks on the most famous walk in Icelandic literature (over 300 km), in order to ‘drop in' on his beloved on his way south. Will she be at home? How will she receive him? Will he be more adept at courting her this time? And is he indeed, telling us the whole truth?