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Rhymed poems. Poems by Tryggvi Emilsson.
A good copy, numbered and signed No. 129 of 500 copies.
Tryggvi Emilsson, a worker and writer, was born on October 20, 1902, in Hamarkot, a small farm above Oddeyri in Akureyri, the fifth of his parents' eight children. In the first volume of his autobiography, Poor People (1976), he describes with unflinching precision his parents' hard struggle for survival, right down to his father's daily wage at the turn of the century in 1900 – it was 2 krónur and 56 aurar for a sixteen-hour day working as a fishmonger or a shoveler. His descriptions of his mother's working day are also impressive; her share was not only to take care of the large household, feed and clothe them, but she also provided for them – she collected various items from the shop for her husband's meager wages or tried to extort alms from a merchant or a poor councilman when the father of the household could not find work or was ill.
Tryggvi's mother died, leaving her children and husband when Tryggvi was six years old, on a winter night in 1908, and the household was dissolved. Tryggvi was sent all the way south to Reykjavík, where he stayed with his maternal uncle and his wife for almost four years. Then he became a labourer at Draflastöðir in Eyjafjörður, where he spent two summers and then a whole year in miserable conditions. From there he escaped from bad luck and stayed with his father until he was seventeen. Then he went to work in Árnes and married the local woman there, Steinunn, and in Baráttan um brauðið (The Fight for Bread) (1977) and Fyrir sunnan (To the South) (1979) he describes their plight in Akureyri, in the countryside and in Reykjavík. Tryggvi's descriptions of the settler years in Reykjavík are absolutely unique and provide an extremely important insight into the lives of the poor in the capital in the years after the war.
Tryggvi Emilsson published a few works of fiction in both the written and spoken language, but it is the biography that will keep his name alive as long as Icelandic is spoken and read.
Tryggvi's attention to detail is admirable, and the strength of the books is the rare precision in the descriptions of events, procedures, conditions, emotions, and other things described. He knows how to use this precision both for the benefit of history and art. It is therefore not least thanks to his writing skills that these books will continue to grow in value as long as anyone is interested in the work and conditions of the Icelandic lower classes in the 20th century.
Tryggvi Emilsson died in 1993.
A good copy, numbered and signed No. 129 of 500 copies.
Tryggvi Emilsson, a worker and writer, was born on October 20, 1902, in Hamarkot, a small farm above Oddeyri in Akureyri, the fifth of his parents' eight children. In the first volume of his autobiography, Poor People (1976), he describes with unflinching precision his parents' hard struggle for survival, right down to his father's daily wage at the turn of the century in 1900 – it was 2 krónur and 56 aurar for a sixteen-hour day working as a fishmonger or a shoveler. His descriptions of his mother's working day are also impressive; her share was not only to take care of the large household, feed and clothe them, but she also provided for them – she collected various items from the shop for her husband's meager wages or tried to extort alms from a merchant or a poor councilman when the father of the household could not find work or was ill.
Tryggvi's mother died, leaving her children and husband when Tryggvi was six years old, on a winter night in 1908, and the household was dissolved. Tryggvi was sent all the way south to Reykjavík, where he stayed with his maternal uncle and his wife for almost four years. Then he became a labourer at Draflastöðir in Eyjafjörður, where he spent two summers and then a whole year in miserable conditions. From there he escaped from bad luck and stayed with his father until he was seventeen. Then he went to work in Árnes and married the local woman there, Steinunn, and in Baráttan um brauðið (The Fight for Bread) (1977) and Fyrir sunnan (To the South) (1979) he describes their plight in Akureyri, in the countryside and in Reykjavík. Tryggvi's descriptions of the settler years in Reykjavík are absolutely unique and provide an extremely important insight into the lives of the poor in the capital in the years after the war.
Tryggvi Emilsson published a few works of fiction in both the written and spoken language, but it is the biography that will keep his name alive as long as Icelandic is spoken and read.
Tryggvi's attention to detail is admirable, and the strength of the books is the rare precision in the descriptions of events, procedures, conditions, emotions, and other things described. He knows how to use this precision both for the benefit of history and art. It is therefore not least thanks to his writing skills that these books will continue to grow in value as long as anyone is interested in the work and conditions of the Icelandic lower classes in the 20th century.
Tryggvi Emilsson died in 1993.