2026-05-07 09:31 UTC
@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
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@sv1@mastodon.social 2026-05-07 09:56
@mo@icelandphotos.co.uk @FourT4@mastodonapp.uk Just to put things in context: the Öræfi area was a real backwater until 1967, when they finally got linked to the road system (eastwards), followed by the bridges on Skeiðarársandur to the west in 1974. Yet they were quite early building electricity-generators, subscribed to various technical manuals and made fairly technical tools from what they called "strand-goods". Still we can see that two of the sisters have the same name, maybe people didn't expect both to live for long.