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The Little Book of the Icelanders in the Old Days
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- How Icelanders' housing developed from stately longhouses to tiny turf farms
- The kvldvaka: how Icelanders managed to live through the long, dark winters
- Social structure among the common folk (farmers to vagabonds)
- All the superstitions: how folks attempted to gain control over their lives
- The elf belief deconstructed: why did those tales of hidden people develop?
- No time to be a kid (being a child was tough in the Iceland of old)
- Sex and the church (yep, Icelandic ecclesiastical authorities also meddled in people's sex lives)
- Precious, precious food. How do you live on the edge of the inhabitable world, where hardly anything grows?
- Welcoming guests: smooching and other etiquettes
- Foreigners in Iceland. Think Iceland had no visitors back then? Think again!
... and so much more!
- How Icelanders' housing developed from stately longhouses to tiny turf farms
- The kvldvaka: how Icelanders managed to live through the long, dark winters
- Social structure among the common folk (farmers to vagabonds)
- All the superstitions: how folks attempted to gain control over their lives
- The elf belief deconstructed: why did those tales of hidden people develop?
- No time to be a kid (being a child was tough in the Iceland of old)
- Sex and the church (yep, Icelandic ecclesiastical authorities also meddled in people's sex lives)
- Precious, precious food. How do you live on the edge of the inhabitable world, where hardly anything grows?
- Welcoming guests: smooching and other etiquettes
- Foreigners in Iceland. Think Iceland had no visitors back then? Think again!
... and so much more!
Paperback
$14.99