The unwise man
is awake all night
worries over and again.
When morning rises
he is restless still,
his burden as before
- The Havamal
Young was I once, I walked alone,
and bewildered seemed in the way;
then I found me another and rich I thought me,
for man is the joy of man.
Hávamál | 47 The Words of Odin the High One
The Past
When you come to a quiet and beautiful sight like this you start to think back in time and start to imagine how it was to live on time when this farm was in the bloom of live and how live was here, I know and I can imagine how grate story is about this farm, but none had written the story of this wonderful and mystic farm, Still being here at this quiet, picturing, mooted and storytelling whereabouts my motion is like it have been here forever exactly like this. When picture is taken a story pup up in my mind Because of hard and coolness of this country for centuries, people in Iceland took rather too seriously a proverb in the ancient poem Hávamál, which says: "Speak what needs to be said, or stay silent." As a rule, politicians find it difficult to follow that advice to day all over world. One exception was President Coolidge of the United States of America, who was most famous for how little he said; and it was no easy task to get the President to speak a single word. An elegant woman who was seated next to him at a dinner once had to put up with the fact the President did not say a word to her all evening. Eventually she lost her patience and said: Mister President, you really must say something, because I made a bet with my friend that I could get you to say at least three words to me. The President Coolidge looked at the woman and said: You lose.
Photographed by Thosrsteinn Asgeirsson
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