Sunday, 14 February 2021


Special delivery — 6th March 1921

 

Mamma & Pabbi


 



Amma and afi
 

Studio portrait


Say cheese . . .


 

A Doctor from Another World


Fridrik comes!

Ragnheiður had been very sick for 2-3 months. Doctors didn’t know what else to do and it was only getting worse. Finally the doctor said that she will likely not survive the night. Then her father Björgvin sent a telegram to a girl named Margrét, who lived in Eyjafjörður. She was spiritually gifted and Björgvin believed in this as well. She answered with a telegram with these words “Friðrik kemur” (Fridrik will come). During the night, that was supposed to be her last night alive, both her mother and father (Oddny and Björgvin) fell asleep. Ragnheiður's sister Gunnþóra woke during the night and saw a stranger standing over Ragnheiður's bed, and holding his hand over her. In the morning Ragnheiður was not sick anymore.

There is a name for doctors like this Fridrik in icelandic- huldulæknir - a doctor from the other world.



 


Goldilocks . . .

 


Fáskrúðsfjörður. Ás (family home, centre)

 


Pabbi and the 'dolls'

 

Let is snow, let it snow, let it snow . . .


Winter fun.

 

Summertime


Summertime, when the living is easy . . .

 

Four Sisters


One more than a Chekhov!

 

Party Girl


Squeeze me!

 


In the garden of your dreams . . .

 


National costume

 

Knitting


Never a wasted moment . . .

 


Studio Portrait

 


A daughter for a daughter — 
Ragnheiður and Oddny (Obba)

 

Mountain Women


With sister Valborg and Obba

 

Sturdy Legs


Mother and daughter

 

Babes in arms . . .


Ragnheiður, Obba and friend


 

Sparkling


Sparkling . . . Youth is not always wasted on the young.

 

Strong Arms


Proud mum

 


Sunshine

 

Ragnheiður and Obba


Mother and daughter

 


Dreamy

 


Dreamy-2

 


Springtime!

 

Look what the stork brought!



Obba with baby brother Bjorgvin

 

Bjorgvin


The philosopher — Bjorgvin

 


Obba and brother Bjorgvin

 

She's Leaving Home . . .


Painful departure —
leaving Fáskrúðsfjörður for the big city

 

Enter the English Artist

 


Heads up!


The Kiss

 

The Muse . . .


Early portrait by Richard Lee

 

The two 'R's


Ragnheiður and Richard  

 


In the Sculptor's Studio

 


La Dolce Vita

 

1947 — From Reykjavik to London


émigré London circa 1947

 

West Bank, Stamford Hill, London


Always reading . . .

 

Moving across the (railway) tracks

 


The house at East Bank


Picnic in the country

 




Cover Girl

 


Red

 

 


Picnic with Pabbi & Mamma & Richard Thor

New Playmate for Rik

 


Roland Baldur

Komorebi


Komorebi —sunlight though trees

 

Richard Thor


Don't burst my bubble!

 


Important visit
Mamma and Pabbi in London

 


'In the Dickie seat' 
The old Morris outside East Bank

 

Welcome No. 5 — Robert Oskar

 


No. 5 — Robert Oskar