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Í hesum triðja bindinum fær Sólrún bundið allar teir leysu træðrirnar saman og lýst, hvussu høvuðspersónurin fótar sær. Undirtónin av nýggjum politiskum hugsjónum hoyrist eisini. Men nógv er at koma til sættis við. Hvat við loyndarmálunum, hon ber inni við seg sjálva? Fer Tórður nakrantíð at kenna sítt upphav? ... In this third volume, Sólrún Michelsen ties all threads together and depicts how the protagonist manages to land on her feet. New political undertones also reveal themselves. But there is still much left for the protagonist to confront. What about the secrets she carries? Will Tórur ever know his origins?

Ein maður liggur til at doyggja á Landssjúkrahúsinum, tí eitt mistak er hent. Men hví er tað komið so langt? Og hvør hevur ábyrgdina? Samstundis er politisk kapprenning um, hvussu Føroya Sjúkrahúsverk skal skipast í hæddini. Deyðasjúki maðurin og sjúkrahúsverkið eru høvuðspersónarnir í skaldsøguni, Gloymdur, sum byggir á veruligar hendingar. ... At the Faroese central hospital, a man has arrived at his final hours of life due to a mistake. How did it come this far? And who is to blame? Meanwhile, the political scramble to provide the best bid for a health care reform has reached new heights. The dying man and the Faroese health care service are the protagonists of the novel, Gloymdur (Forgotten), which is based on true events.

Í hugtakandi ævisøguni BARNAÁR granskar Coetzee persónsmenskuna og kensluligu búningina hjá einum gávaðum og væl at sær komnum dreingi frá tí, at hann er tíggju til trettan ár. Hampiligur í skúlanum, bestur í flokkinum, men harðráðin við hús. Helt hánt um pápan og livdi í ótta fyri at missa kærleikan hjá mammuni. Hann píndist av skuld og ótta. Hann fekk eyguni upp fyri bókmentum, hann vaknaði kynsliga og setti ørkymlandi spurningar um apartheid. Bara á grasfløtunum kendi hann seg heima. Søgan fer fram úti á bygd einar 100 km uttan fyri Cape Town í 1940- og 1950 árunum. Foreldrini eru afrikanar, og hann fær alt tað, tann hvíta miðalstættin hevur framíhjá, ta betru útbúgvingina og alt hitt, sum ger, at tey ''prefer to be English''. Men tað elur fram iva og skomm. --- J. M (John Maxwell) Coetzee er føddur í 1940. Hann er suðurafrikani, sum flutti til Avstralia at búgva í 2002. Víða gitin sum høvundur og í 2003 fekk hann heiðursløn Nobels fyri fagrar bókmentir. Fáir høvundar, sum skriva á enskum, hava fingið so nógvar viðurkenningar sum Coetzee. ... In the captivating biography BARNAÁR (Childhood years), Coetzee investigates the personality and emotional development of a gifted and capable boy, from when the boy is ten years of age until he turns thirteen. Decently behaved at school, top of his class, yet tyrannical at home. Flouting his father and in constant fear of loosing his mother’s affection. He struggled with guilt and fear. He discovered literature, became sexually aware, and mystified, he questioned apartheid. He only felt at home on the grassy fields. The stage is set in a town about 100 km outside of Cape Town in the 1940s and 1950s. His parents are African, and he is given every opportunity granted to the white middle-class, the superior education and the rest of it, which makes them “prefer to be English”. But all this breeds doubt and shame. --- J. M. (John Maxwell) Coetzee was born in 1940. He is South African and moved to Australia in 2002. A renowned author, in 2003 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Few English-language writers have received as much praise as Coetzee.

Lagnan Richard B. Thomsen Tilburðirnir í hesi skaldsøgu fara fram í tíð, sum liggur frammanundan trúbótini, og dámurin frá ógvusligum føroyskum sagnum er yvir henni. Hagamørk verða ásett og flutt við glíming partanna millum. Knívurin er eisini á lofti í hesum bardaga, helst í loyndum. Havrekar koma úr Noregi til Føroya og verða verandi her. Men gamla føroyska bóndasamfelagið er ikki rummiskt við hesar menn. Bøndur, fullir av ognargirnd standa fyri teimum, og girndin gevur hvørki eftir fyri drápi ella skálkagerðum. Giftarmálsavtalur verða gjørdar fyri at halda ognirnar saman. Stríð tekur seg upp millum gott og ónt, sterkan vilja og veikleika, kærleika og hatur. Ógvisligir tilburðir og dráp standast av. ... The incidents in this novel take place during a time before the Reformations and they have with them the distinct hue of extreme Faroese legend and tradition. Wrestling matches would define and redefine the boundaries between pastures. The use of a knife would come about during these fights, secretly though. Shipwrecked people from Norway would come to the Faroe Islands and would remain here. But the old Faroese farming society did not show generosity towards these men. Farmers hungry for land stood in their way and the greed didn’t shy away from murder or foul play. Marital arrangements were made in order to keep land property together. There is a struggle between good and evil, willpower and weakness, love and hate. A sequence of terrible incidents and murders occurs.

Tað er summarið 1852 í Kengis í norðasta Svøríki. Prósturin og vekingarprædikumaðurin Lars Levi Læstadius tekur bókstavliga ein ungan sámadrong upp av veitarbakkanum. Jussi, sum drongurin eitur, er rýmdur heimanífrá undan harðskapi og svongd. Prósturin tekur hann við sær, og Jussi verður næmingur hansara og trúgvi fylgisneyti á plantufrøðiligu gonguferðunum á Pajala-leiðini. Tá ið ein neytakona hvørvur og verður funnin deyð, og so ein onnur illa meidd, átekur prósturin sær við Jussa sum hjálparmanni uppgávuna sum detektivur. Bygdarfólkið ivast ikki í, at tað er ein stór og óð bjørn, sum herjar, men prósturin stúrir fyri, at ein nógv verri manndrápari er á vási. KÓKA BJØRN er ein hugfangandi skaldsøga um, hvussu stórar hendingar raka ein lítlan heim, hetta er ein krimisøga úr norðasta Svøríki, sum fer fram í einari fortíð, sum luktar av brennivíni, sveitta og svongd, og hetta er ein bók, sum fer beint í hjartað. ... It is the summer of 1852 in Kengis, the northernmost part of Sweden. The pastor and revivalist Lars Levi Læstadius literally picks up a young Sami boy from a ditch. The boy's name is Jussi, and he has run away from home to escape violence and hunger. The pastor takes him under his wing, and Jussi becomes his student and loyal follower on his botanical treks along the Pajala trail. When a milkmaid goes missing in the forest and is found dead, and a second girl is attacked, the pastor takes on the role of a detective with Jussi as his assistant. Villagers attribute the attacks to a large and angry bear that is tormenting the area, but the pastor suspects that a far more dangerous predator is on the loose. KÓKA BJØRN is a captivating novel that details the impact of dire events on a small society. It is a crime story in the northernmost part of Sweden, set in a past that reeks of liqour, sweat and hunger. It is a book that pierces your heart.

Tá ið trøll fara á flog (When trolls fly off) is a lyrical story set in the Faroe Islands. Can the dead body of a child get two families, that have long been in conflict with one another, to reconcile? Can children settle old enmity between their forefathers? In that moment, when life dies and life is reborn, and the sky collides with the earth, it is impossible to see where earth ends, and the sky begins. There, you see eternity with naked eyes. It fills and floats, smells and extends, heavy and humid. At daybreak, it lifts. Eternity embraces itself and slips in behind your eye. No one sees it. You only feel its weight, before you close your eyes, and they forever become part of the eyes of the night sky.

I have printed a copy of the photograph of grandfather and the children. It is the last chapter in the story of me. The photograph is hanging above the desk, fastened with two pins. When I look at my uncle and grandfather, I see myself. It is right before advent. The telephone rings, and on the other end is the unfamiliar voice of a woman. She says, that she is his cousin. He has never heard of or met any of his maternal relatives. He was never told, what his grandfather’s name was. Can it have something to do with the fact, that he is suffering from a hereditary disease and is now in a wheelchair? Is that the reason why they have been so secretive? He pays his old mother a visit and hopes to get some answers before it is too late … Hvíta baðhúsið (The White Bathroom) is a novel about shame, secrets, and the price of being honest.

Eitt lík verður funnið í eini kjallaraíbúð í Norðmýrini. Líkið av einum eldri manni, einum helviti av einum ódjóri. Onkur hevur skilliga beint fyri honum. Erlendur yvirløgreglumaður hjá rann­sóknarløgregluni í Reykjavík og samstarvsfelagar hansara fáa málið í hendur. Skjótt kemur undan kavi at hin myrdi hevur lagt eina slóð av neyðtøkum og yvirgangi eftir seg um alt Ísland. Men offrini hjá honum eru kortini fleiri enn bert tær neyðtiknu kvinn­urnar. Avkomið undan beistinum og eftirkomarar teirra fáa eina syndarliga lagnu. Mýrin er ein sjáldsama væl spunnin krimisøga, fjøltáttað og spenn­andi, skrivað við sálarfrøðiligum gløggskygni og neyvum ansi fyri samfelagsviðurskiftum. --- A corpse is found in a basement apartment in Norðmýri. It’s the body of an older man, a hell of a monster. Somebody has clearly done away with him. Erlendur, the police chief at the criminal investigation department in Reykjavik, and his colleagues are given the case. It soon comes to light that the murder victim has left a trail of rapes and terror behind him across Iceland. But his victims are however more than the women who were raped. The monster’s descendants and their offspring are given a tragic fate. "Jar City" is a remarkably well-spun thriller, diverse and exciting, written with psychological shrewdness and precise observations of society.

Hetta er ein sjaldsama stuttlig fólkakomedia, ið Marius Johannesen gjørdi ódeyðiliga í Føroyum, tá ið hann týddi og las hana upp í Útvarpinum í 60 árunum. Bør Børson ætlar sær at fáa nógv burtur úr lívinum. Ætlar sær at ganga nýggjar leiðir, setur sær onnur mál enn tey flestu har í bygdarlagnum. Øll eru klár at læa eftir honum, skuldi hann beklað. Hann er góðvarin, roynir at fjeppast uppi í teimum fínu, men er eitt fitt fólk við øllum teimum skavankum, fólk hava. Hann fær sær handil, og tað gongst honum ikki bara sum smurt. Takið er tungt. Skuldin veksur. Hann verður noyddur at svika við peningi. Hann verður forsmáddur sum biðil, hevur kærleikskvøl, men kemur fyri seg aftur við hepni og tilvildum. Hann blandar seg við betra slagið í Tróndheimi. Tey skoða lúkst ígjøgnum bygdarfrellið. Tá ið svartast sær út, verður hann snýttur eina náttina, hann er drukkin, av partabrævaspekulantum. Hann heldur seg vera farnan av knóranum, lívsverkið forkomið, men hann gerst av einum stavifeili margmillióningur. Sleppur sær heim aftur á Olderstað, múgvandi, og verður trúlovaður síni fyrstu og størstu flammu. ... This is an exceptionally funny folk comedy, which was immortalized in the Faroe Islands by Marius Johannesen, when he translated it and read it on national radio in the 1960s. Bør Børson is intent on achieving much in life. He plans on going where no one has gone before and sets himself different goals than most people in town. Everyone is ready to mock him, should he fail. He is naïve and tries to mingle with the finer crowd, but he is a decent fellow with the same flaws as everyone else. He opens a shop and it does not go too well. It is a long haul. His debt is growing. He is compelled to embezzle money. He gets rejected when courting, suffers from unreciprocated love, but recovers with some luck and serendipity. He mingles with the upper crust in Tróndheim. They see right through the villager. At his lowest, he gets conned one night while drunk by some stock market speculators. He believes himself to have gone bankrupt, his life’s work in ruins, but thanks to a spelling error, he becomes a multi-millionaire. He travels back to Olderstað, affluent, and gets engaged to his first and greatest love.

Jørgen-Frantz setti sær fyri at siga eina søgu um sínar djúpastu kenslur. Søgan skuldi verða bæði lovsongur og harmaljóð á tí mótið, har neistar bresta ímillum lív og deyða. Tað mótið bygdi hann upp í fleiri fláum: einum søguligum botni, einum evni úr eini søgn og sjálvævisøguligum tilfari um kærleika til gentu, hann ikki fekk. Søgn var um prestseinkjuna Beintu, ið dró menn til sín og beindi fyri teimum. Jørgen-Frantz málar nýggja mynd av henni við sterkum erotiskum strokum. Hon tølir alt og øll, men undir hesari tølan býr eingin óndskapur, bara ódarvað náttúra. Søguliga Beinta gerst í skaldsøguni kvinna, sum fyllir menn við ovurhuga, knýtir teir eirindaleyst til sín, heftir teir at sær sum rúsevni. Nýggi presturin kemur í hóslag við prestseinkjuna, og hon verður ein sterkari brandur á himlinum enn Várharra sjálvur. Hetta elvir trega og ástarrús um somu leið. Hesa sálarkvøl verða vit sogin inní í skaldsøguni. Hetta er pínan og rúsurin, lesarin sleingist ímillum. ... Jørgen-Frantz was determined to tell a story about his deepest emotions. The story was to be both a song of praise and a lament at a crossroad where sparks fly between life and death. He used that crossroad and built it up in many layers: a historical foundation, a legendary tale and the autobiographical content about his love for a girl he could never have. The legendary tale was of the priest’s widow Beinta, who drew men to her only to do away with them. Jørgen-Frantz paints a new image of her with strong erotic strokes. She tempts everything and everyone, but underneath this seduction lives no evil, only unhindered nature. In the book, the historical Beinta becomes a woman who fills men with passion, ties them mercilessly to her and binds them to her like a drug. The new priest has an affair with the widow and she becomes a more powerful force then the Lord Himself. This leads to grief and the fervor of love at the same time.It is through soulful anguish that the book captivates us. The reader is tossed between waves of pain and excitement.

Harrin gav ikki kollutari kúgv horn, at hon skuldi ikki stanga, og betur er at elska dyggan hund enn illan træl, segði hann, – tey tíðindi ganga sum rótasúpan, at Jens hevur lovað at spreingja kong í luftina. Tey siga, at hann hevur keypt sær ein fullan kassa við dynamitt. Bikarið er fult, rópti Jónas, kongavitjanin er avlýst. Lat meg tosa við Jensin, segði Hanna Malena og fór. Hon fann hann niðri í neystinum. Hann sat friðarligur á einum geisla og riðaði eina skrubbunót. Er tað satt, Jens, at tú hevur keypt ein kassa við dynamitt ? spurdi konan. Tað, sum ikki er lygn, er satt, segði Jens. Hvat skalt tú brúka dynamittið til ? At spreingja við. Hvat skalt tú spreingja ? Einki svar. Hvat skalt tú spreingja, Jens ? Sig tað nú. Kong. ... The Lord refrained from granting the cow horns to keep it from butting, and it is better to love a faithful dog than a bad man, he said, – the news spread like wildfire, that Jens had promised to blow up the king. They say he has bought a whole crate of dynamite. That was the final straw, Jónas shouted, the royal visit has been called off. Let me speak to the Jens, said Hanna Melena and left. She found him in the boathouse. Quietly, he sat there mending a dragnet. Is it true, Jens, that you have bought a whole crate of dynamite? the woman asked. That, which is not a lie, is true, said Jens. What will you use the dynamite for? An explosion. What explosion? No answer. What are you going to blow up, Jens? Tell me. The king.

Í tíðarbilinum frá 1856 til 1940 vaks fólkatalið í Klaksvíkar kommunu úr umleið 280 upp í umleið 2200. Henda bókin er um hetta skeiðið. Tað er í hesum skeiði, at m.a. stóra fyritøkan hjá Beck og Sønner mennist úti í Klaksvík, og tað er í hesum tíðarskeiðnum, at Joen Fredrik Kjølbro, vanliga bara nevndur Kjølbro, mennir sína stóru reiðara- og handilsfyritøku í Klaksvík. Ta fyritøkuna, sum gjørdist størsta handilsfyritøkan í Føroyum longu í 1930-árunum. Tað er eisini um hetta mundið, at brøðrasamkoman, sum fekk stóran týdning fyri vinnuligu og mentanarligu gongdina í Klaksvík í 20. øld, festir røtur og fær stóra undirtøku í Klaksvík. Tað er hetta vinnuliga og mentanarliga byltingarskeið, 2. bind av Klaksvíkar søgu snýr seg um. ... From 1856 to 1940, the population of Klaksvík grew from around 280 people to about 2200. This volume focuses on that period. It is during this time that the Beck and Sønner, a major company, develops in Klaksvík, and it is also during this period that Joen Fredrik Kjølbro, usually simply called Kjølbro, begins what is to become a large fishing and retail business. His company became the largest busines in the Faroes already in the 1930s. It is also at this time that the Plymouth Brethren, who became very important both for the commercial and cultural development in the village during the 20. century, arrive in the village and gain a large following. Í tíðarbilinum frá 1856 til 1940 vaks fólkatalið í Klaksvíkar kommunu úr umleið 280 upp í umleið 2200. Henda bókin er um hetta skeiðið. It is this period of commercial and cultural revolutions that this second volume of the history of Klaksvík discusses.