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Good morning all you knife nuts.
I want to share with you something private of mine in exchange for all the wonderful knowledge I have accumulated on this website. It has been absolutely wonderful to find all this knowledge in one place from all of you for I have sought this knowledge elsewhere for many a year with little luck or at least nothing campared to finding this jackpot of solid knife knowledge that this websit is.
These are pictures of where my family is from. These are islands in a bay in west Iceland called Breidafjordur and the islands are Flatey (flat island) and Hergilsey (impossible to tranlate) The island of Hergilsey is most famous for being one of the scenes in the saga of one of our heroes from old, Gisli Sursson who was exciled in the year 964 and stayed in Hergilsey from 966 for 3 years and was killed 14 years later.
He slept in pretty much the same place as my great grandfather and mother on the island.
In 1783 the first people for many years started living on the island again and my great grandfather and mother moved there in 1915 and lived there until 1946. Then they moved to a bigger island called Flatey. We now have summer houses there and I go there to hunt Puffin and other birds, seals and collect eggs and Eider down, wich is the stuff the bird called Eider plucks from its chest to keep the eggs warm. It is used for pillows and sleeping covers where it is cold and is extremely expensive.
On this trip I we went to collect Eider Down and I took some of my knives with me. I have seen pictures in posts from you guyes and I love good pictures of beautiful knives.
The islands that the pictures of knives are taken in are not inhabited and are only occupied by birds and wildlife. And they are absolutely steaming with life at this time of the year, absolutely wonderful to walk there.
Flatey
An Eider's nest and some of my favorites
One of the islands
The bird called Eider
And the male
The nest
Continued in another post!!!
I want to share with you something private of mine in exchange for all the wonderful knowledge I have accumulated on this website. It has been absolutely wonderful to find all this knowledge in one place from all of you for I have sought this knowledge elsewhere for many a year with little luck or at least nothing campared to finding this jackpot of solid knife knowledge that this websit is.
These are pictures of where my family is from. These are islands in a bay in west Iceland called Breidafjordur and the islands are Flatey (flat island) and Hergilsey (impossible to tranlate) The island of Hergilsey is most famous for being one of the scenes in the saga of one of our heroes from old, Gisli Sursson who was exciled in the year 964 and stayed in Hergilsey from 966 for 3 years and was killed 14 years later.
He slept in pretty much the same place as my great grandfather and mother on the island.
In 1783 the first people for many years started living on the island again and my great grandfather and mother moved there in 1915 and lived there until 1946. Then they moved to a bigger island called Flatey. We now have summer houses there and I go there to hunt Puffin and other birds, seals and collect eggs and Eider down, wich is the stuff the bird called Eider plucks from its chest to keep the eggs warm. It is used for pillows and sleeping covers where it is cold and is extremely expensive.
On this trip I we went to collect Eider Down and I took some of my knives with me. I have seen pictures in posts from you guyes and I love good pictures of beautiful knives.
The islands that the pictures of knives are taken in are not inhabited and are only occupied by birds and wildlife. And they are absolutely steaming with life at this time of the year, absolutely wonderful to walk there.
Flatey
An Eider's nest and some of my favorites
One of the islands
The bird called Eider
And the male
The nest
Continued in another post!!!
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