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  • “What A Hard Life Is That Of The Poor Icelanders!”

    “What A Hard Life Is That Of The Poor Icelanders!”

    One day in August 1888, the British steamer ‘Camoens’ docked in the town of Akureyri in Northern Iceland. The ‘Camoens’-for some reason named for Portugal’s national poet, Luís de Camões- sailed regularly between Scotland and Iceland with passengers and cargo. Debarking the…