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Type: Paperbook
Categories: Novels
Origin country: Faroe Islands
Cover: Edward Fuglø
Making up: Sonja Kjølbro
ISBN: 9978-99972-1-451-5
Date of publication : 9. December 2021
Pages: 776

Nornan spinnur

Sólrún Michelsen
NORNAN SPINNUR (The Norn Spins) is the title of the trilogy containing these three books: "Ein táttur er silvur" (One strand is silver), "Ein annar er gull" (Another is gold) and "Fáur fær tráðin heilt slættan" (Few can straighten the thread).

A sad event launches this trilogy. A mother dies in childbirth, leaving behind 10 children. Not an uncommon occurrence some hundred years ago.

The grief goes unmentioned. The father remarries. The children are divided, and their fates unfold in exceedingly different ways.

We are at the end of the 19th century, and all the tremors that plunged through religion, politics, the labour movement, and culture at the turn of the century, are merged into these fateful stories.

One of the girls, who has great plans for her life, ventures off to a farm in order to serve and earn some cash, because the dream is to go abroad.
The farmer rapes her, and a child is conceived. No one is told who the father is, but she is to live with the shame. We follow her on her lonely path to restitution after the misdeed.

It is a noble story in all stillness. A tender and emotional story of fate, which may as well have faded into all the others like it, but which now has been written into a fine trilogy.

The protagonist and her experiences are based on true events.

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