Óhreinu börnin hennar Evu Social Themes ISBN 9789935499592

ISBN 9789935499592

more than half the Icelandic population were still living in turf houses

The story begins in howling snow storm with stranger knocking on the door of an isolated farm in the east of Iceland in the year of 1987

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Author Aðalsteinn Emil Aðalsteinsson

Óhreinu börnin hennar Evu Social Themes ISBN 9789935499592There can hardly be more horrible disease than leprosy. The history of leprosy in Iceland is tightly knit with history of the disease in Norway. It came to Iceland from Norway in the fourteenth century and both countries fought it by enforcing a straight quarantine, almost outcast. This is at times a gruesome history approached here in an empathetic manner by dr. Erlu Dris Halldrsdttur. ISBN 9789935212474 Author Erla Dris Halldrsdttir Publisher Ugla,