{"id":1233,"date":"2013-04-24T19:09:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T02:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2013-04-24T19:54:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T02:54:54","slug":"our-ancestors-our-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/24\/our-ancestors-our-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Our ancestors, our heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/24\/our-ancestors-our-heroes\/farm-on-snaefellsness\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1234\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Farm-on-Snaefellsness.jpg\" alt=\"Farm on Snaefellsness\" width=\"395\" height=\"278\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Farm-on-Snaefellsness.jpg 395w, https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Farm-on-Snaefellsness-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Farm on Snaefellsness, Collingwood<\/p>\n<p>The letters Uno von Troil sent to his patron are, for me filled with intriguing details. Unfortunately, there are no footnotes to expand some of these details.<br \/>\nProbably the most interesting thing he says about the economy of Iceland is that in spite of the harsh laws, the Icelanders manage to trade in smuggled goods. Iceland has a rugged coast. There are many possible harbours where a boat can anchor while word can be spread from farm to farm and the farmers can load up their horses with sheep skins, wool, preserved meat, knitted goods, wadmal, and eider down, anything that they might use to barter for desperately needed goods. <\/p>\n<p>Remember, there were no mineable metals in Iceland. Everything made of metal from horse shoes to sewing needles had to be imported. Every farmer, it was said, was his own blacksmith but blacksmiths need coal, charcoal, and metal bars that can be shaped to whatever is needed. <\/p>\n<p>Since grain could not ripen, barley, rye, and later, rice, needed to be imported. The Icelanders preferred rye biscuit, probably because the biscuit could be stored for long periods of time and, unlike the grain and flour, were not moldy.<br \/>\nAccording to von Troil, the Dutch smugglers brought better quality goods. Why wouldn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farm on Snaefellsness, Collingwood The letters Uno von Troil sent to his patron are, for me filled with intriguing details. Unfortunately, there are no footnotes to expand some of these details. Probably the most interesting thing he says about the economy of Iceland is that in spite of the harsh laws, the Icelanders manage to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}