Ein annar er gull
EIN ANNAR ER GULL er framhald av væl umtóktu skaldsøguni EIN TÁTTUR ER SILVUR.
Fyrra bókin endar við, at sluppin, sum maður var við, varð skotin á Føroya banka. Men – og søguliga satt – koma allir menninir, sum vóru við sluppunum, skotnar vórðu á bankanum henda dagin, aftur í øllum góðum.
Tey bæði og børnini fara undir gerandisdagin aftur, men hann hevur fingið sálarligt mein av tilburðinum. Tilveran, ið var stríggin frammanundan, verður nú uppaftur strævnari.
Sólrún lýsir korini hjá vanligum fiskimannahúskjum í hesum tíðum í gerandisdegnum, og tá ið hóttafall kemur á.
Kríggið endar, og Sólrún leiðir okkum ígjøgnum nakrar lagnur beint sum spanska sjúka og tuberklasjúkan taka seg upp.
Tann eini tátturin er hjúnalag, sum er grundað á tryggleika heldur enn kærleika, og hvussu hesin kærleikin losnar í bondunum, tá ið sannur kærleiki við sonnum erotikki trokar seg á. Ring samvitska um at bróta heilagar reglur. Kanst tú vera heil kvinna, kona og mamma, um tú verður ásttikin í einum manni, meðan tann, tú ert gift við, liggur sjúkur?
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EIN ANNAR ER GULL (ANOTHER IS GOLD) is the sequel to the popular novel EIN TÁTTUR ER SILVUR (ONE PART IS SILVER).
The first book concludes with shots fired on the Faroe Bank Channel at the smack, where a husband is onboard. However – and historically correct – all lives onboard the smacks, which were shot at on the Bank that day, were saved.
The couple and their children continue their daily lives, but he has been mentally wounded by the incident. Life, which was tough before, now becomes even tougher.
Sólrún describes the everyday conditions of the common fisherman’s household during this time, and when bad luck strikes.
The war reaches its end, and Sólrún guides us through some of the fates unfolding at the onset of the Spanish flu and tuberculosis.
Part of it is marriage, which is built on security rather than love, and how this love bursts at the seams, when true love with unadulterated eroticism invades. Self-reproach for breaking religious law. Can you be whole as a woman, wife, and mother, if you fall in live with a man, while the one you are married to ails?
