{"product_id":"minningar-ingunn-jonsdottir-fra-kornsa-segir-fra-69136-59977","title":"Memories. Ingunn Jónsdóttir from Kornsá tells the story # 69136","description":"Memories. Ingunn Jónsdóttir from Kornsá tells the story. Guðrún A. Björnsdóttir writes the foreword.\u003cbr\u003e Ingunn Jónsdóttir was born in Melar in Hrútafjörður on July 30, 1855. Her parents were Jón Jónsson, a farmer in Melar, and his wife Sigurlaug Jónsdóttir. Ingunn grew up in Melar and benefited from the home's selection of books, as she was a great lover of books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When Ingunn was 21 years old, in 1876, she moved east to Bjarnarnes in Hornafjörður to look after the estate of her brother Jón, who had by then become a priest there. Ingunn stayed in Hornafjörður for the next four years, and she considers them to have been some of the best years of her life. After her stay in Hornafjörður, Ingunn went to Denmark where she learned about butter and cheese making and then spent some time at the folk high school in Vilan in Sweden. In total, she would have spent about a year abroad.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn 1883, Ingunn married Björn Sigfússon. They lived for the first three years at Hof in Vatnsdalur in Húnavatnssýsla County, but then moved to Grímstunga in the same county. They lived there for thirteen years, but in the spring of 1899 they moved to Kornsá in Vatnsdalur where they lived until 1925, when they settled down.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That fall, Ingunn moved to Reykjavík to live with her daughter Sigríður, where she remained until her death, when she died on August 9, 1947, at the age of 92.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sigurður Nordal is believed to have been the initiator of Ingunn's writing of her memoirs. In Ingunn's centennial commemoration, Svafa Þorleifsdóttir writes:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Ingunn had her own special way of doing her writing, as she did many other things. She sometimes had trouble sleeping, especially in the early hours of the day. Now she took up the habit of placing a piece of paper and pencil on the table by her bed when she went to rest in the evenings and then using her waking hours to write. This is how most of what she wrote probably came about. Her initial intention was not to have what she recorded printed, but rather to leave it as a manuscript, for example, in the National Archives for the information of posterity. But through the efforts of Dr. Sigurður Nordal and other good people, the manuscript went to print. My Book was published in the first half of 1926, and the author was then in his early seventies.\" \u003cbr\u003eIngunn's second book, Memories, was published in 1937, when Ingunn was in her eighties. Even after that time she still wrote a bit, and those chapters appeared in the book Old Acquaintance, along with material from her previous books. The book was published in 1946, a year before Ingunn died.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Stories by Ingunn also appeared in various newspapers and magazines, as can be seen if her name is entered into www.timarit.is.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e (Sources: Svafa Þorleifsdóttir, \"Ingunn Jónsdóttir from Kornsá. Centennial Commemoration.\" June 19, 6th year, 1956.) (www.skald.is)","brand":"Bókin.is","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51122009112904,"sku":"OSC-59977","price":4900.0,"currency_code":"ISK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0916\/4029\/9848\/files\/69136.jpg?v=1754733739","url":"https:\/\/www.bokin.is\/en\/products\/minningar-ingunn-jonsdottir-fra-kornsa-segir-fra-69136-59977","provider":"bokin.is","version":"1.0","type":"link"}