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do for the disease’s complications. “I know what I’m talking
about,” Napoleon said. “Good wishes and constant care,
there isn’t much more in our power.”
Old Tóvó assumed an educated man would not think much
of household remedies, and he could not bring himself to
ask the doctor for any
skerpikjøt
mites.
As it was, he felt he had no other choice than to do what the
city’s inhabitants did when the German privateer “Baron
von Hompesch” plundered Tórshavn’s trade coffers: go out
and beg.
The farmers on Húsagar
ð
ur had meat, but knocking on a
Sunman’s door, hat in hand – that was not something he
could face.
However, Old Tóvó swallowed his shame and made the trip
to Quillinsgar
ð
ur to the former county administrator’s wife
Anna Sofie von Løbner. He stood in the doorway, and for a
moment, while she tapped her knuckles with her fingers,
she looked at him in surprise.
Old Tóvó could well remember when Anna Sofie was one of
Húsagar
ð
bonden’s milkmaids. Her father was a cooper, so
she was known as Cooper’s Anna Sofie. She was a shapely
woman, and thanks to her plump figure, she was asked to
play one of the maids in Holberg’s comedy
The Lying-in
Room.