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The nickname
Pisan
, which means “chick,” rhymed with the
female body part under her shift, and what she could not
settle with money, she settled with her nickname-rhyming
body part.
Old Tóvó was one of her long-time suitors and friends, and
when she grew old, he pitied her and took her home to the
Geil house to live. And it was there she was taken by
measles.
The cart came for Pisan on the Eve of Pentecost. Little Tóvó
was sick with the measles and did not fully comprehend
what was happening. He only saw the blue
pisan
-head as
they lifted her into the coffin.
It should be added here that Old Tóvó became a widower in
1822. His wife, Ebba, hailed from Venzilsstova in Kaldbak,
and they had two children. Their daughter, Gudrun, was
usually called Gudda. At eleven years of age she became
maid to the Argir hospital’s tenant. In 1820 Claus Manicus
was appointed country surgeon, and in the years he worked
on the Faroes, Gudda served as his house maid. When the
Manicuses moved in 1828, they invited Gudda to come with
them to Denmark. She served as their maid for thirteen
years and died unexpectedly at the age of forty-nine.
Old Tóvó’s son was also called Tóvó. He and his young wife,
Annelin, lived in the Geil house. Annelin was pregnant
when young Tóvó went down with the
Royndin Fríða.
She