2026-05-07 09:24 UTC
@mo@icelandphotos.co.uk @FourT4@mastodonapp.uk Certainly impressive to deal with glaciers, the big rivers and the rough seas off the shore. Yet they had time for other stuff; the last farmers at Kvísker are the most famous autodidactes in the country - four brothers where one wrote peer-reviewed articles on insects, birds and flora, one was a local historian, one was an inventor, and one was a reference in glaciology. But of course it was their sister who ran the practical side of the household. None of them ever did marry.
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@sv1@mastodon.social 2026-05-07 09:31
@mo@icelandphotos.co.uk @FourT4@mastodonapp.uk One of the siblings became a farmer at Hof, on the opposite side of the volcano. He was a well known craftsman; building houses, furniture and even the church organ, which he made using wreckage from stranded ships. Unfortunately their Wikipedia-page is a bit short and is missing translations: https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvískerjabræður 🤓