![]() ![]() Petur is reputed to be one of the huldufolk – one of the ‘hidden people’ or elves, who take people and feast on their souls. He said it reminded him of her.Īnd a few months later accompanied by Petur, his apprentice, she travels to Stykkishólmur. Jon gives her a small glass figurine, shaped in the perfect form of a woman, hands clasped and her gaze meekly lowered, as a wedding present. She accepted him, not because she loved him but to save her mother from starvation. He and Rosa had met when he had been travelling south and although his wife, Anna, had only been dead for two months he had proposed to Rosa. But the land in Iceland is never still and the stones had been dislodged, pushing the body upwards and breaking the ice above.Īnd then the story steps back a few months to August 1686 as Rósa is sent to the remote village of Stykkishólmur to join her new husband, Jón Eiríksson, a rich fisherman, farmer and merchant, and the chieftain. It begins in November 1686 as a body surfaces from the ice-crusted sea, a body that had been weighted down with stones. ![]() ![]() The story takes places over just a few months from August to December. ![]() The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea, set in Iceland in 1686, has a dark atmosphere, saturated in sadness, fear and superstition, a story of suspicion, love and violence. ![]()
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