{"product_id":"villtur-vegar-61280-19778","title":"Wild road #61280","description":"A Wild Road. A poem by Kristján Einarsson from Djúpalækur.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Wikipedia.org says this about Kristján, a poet from Djúpalækur.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Kristján was born at Djúpalækur in Skeggjastaðahrepp in North Múlasýsla. This area of ​​land is east of Langanes and is called Langanesströnd or just Ströndin by the locals and is located on Bakkaflói.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Kristján's parents were Einar Vilhjálmur Eiríksson (1871 – 1937), and Gunnþórunn Jónasdóttir (1895 – 1965).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As a child, he did the traditional farm chores of a young boy, working in the fields, walking the drifts and gathering twigs and branches, root tubers and small roots and carrying them to the mills to dry so they could be used in the fire. And if you were lucky, you could sometimes find a red snapper on the rocks that had fallen into the surf. Delicious fresh food.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDuring the winter of 1936 – 1937, Kristján studied at Eiðaskóli in Eiðaþinghá, then twenty years old. In the spring of 1937, his father died, and after completing his exams, he returned home and worked with his brother Sigurður on the construction of a house he was building on the new farm Bjarmaland, which is just a stone's throw from Djúpalækur. Both Djúpilækur and Bjarmaland are now abandoned farms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the fall of 1938 he went to Akureyri High School and stayed there until the spring when he dropped out. At Eidar, Kristján had met his local lady from Staðartunga in Hörgárdalur, Unni Friðbjarnardóttir, whom he married and lived with until his death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eUnnur and Kristján started farming in Staðartunga in 1938. Kristján was not considered particularly inclined to farming, and the couple sold their farm in 1943 and moved to Akureyri, where they lived for the next six years. At that time, Kristján mainly worked in factories, which bored him and he could not stand. He found an outlet in writing poetry, which made him famous and became an active labor activist. It was also the beginning of his friendship with the poet Heiðrek Guðmundsson, which lasted a lifetime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e At the end of 1949, Kristján and Unnur moved to Hveragerði, then the center of Icelandic artists. There they lived in a house called Bræðraborg or Frumskógar 6.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBy this time he had become known as a poet and a popular songwriter and as the years passed he became more and more famous. But fame was not enough, as with many artists, he lacked the salt in his porridge. He needed to provide for his family and so he took on various jobs. He was a children's teacher in Hveragerði and Þorlákshöfn, and also worked as a gardener, house painter and various other jobs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e During the Hveragerði years, the couple met, among others, Jóhannes úr Kötlar, Kristmann Guðmundsson, Gunnar Benediktsson, Reverend Helgi Sveinsson and other notable people. Kristján and Unnur lived there until 1961, and it was there that their only son, Kristján Krisjánsson, a philosopher who is now a university lecturer in Akureyri, was born.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn 1961 the couple moved back to Akureyri and for several years Kristján took on the editorial role of the newspaper Verkamannins, as well as teaching at Akureyri Primary School and doing various volunteer work in addition to working on his writing. For several summers he worked as a fishing inspector on rivers in Eyjafjörður, Fnjóská, Hörgá and Eyjafjarðará.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Kristján received many awards for his poetry, such as the Jónas Hallgrímsson Prize, awards from the Icelandic National Broadcasting Corporation's Writers' Fund and the Akureyri Town Arts Fund, and received the Artist's Award since 1948.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the preface to one of his poetry books, former high school teacher Gísli Jónsson reflects on the contradictions that plagued Kristján:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Kristján frá Djúpalækur is at once an Icelandic countryman and a citizen of the world. All kinds of opposites have competed for him: longing, homesickness; desire for change, steadfastness; rebellion, humility; humility, audacity; intimacy, irony; seriousness, mockery; denial, devotion. His personality is torn by all these aspects and is therefore difficult for many to understand. He is a poet of darkness in search of light, a poet of the flower of life who stands trembling in the face of death and yet knows that he is a \"friend, a brother.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But above all, he is just a poet.”\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bókin.is","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51126169829704,"sku":"OSC-19778","price":6900.0,"currency_code":"ISK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0916\/4029\/9848\/files\/kristjaneinarssonfradjupalaek_villturvegar.jpg?v=1754823927","url":"https:\/\/www.bokin.is\/en\/products\/villtur-vegar-61280-19778","provider":"bokin.is","version":"1.0","type":"link"}