![]() ![]() Only two women speak to her, and one mutters a warning: “There is darkness in being alone here.”Īs the days and weeks unfold, Rósa discovers falseness, distrust, and rivalry, and hears unsettling rumors about Jón’s first wife. When she does walk down the hill and into the village, people stare, their expressions full of fear and revulsion, and then turn away. ![]() ![]() “The list of tasks is dizzying: washing, cooking, cleaning, mending, gutting, reaping.” Every effort Rósa makes to get to know her husband is rebuffed gradually, loneliness becomes “a slow-forming ice in her gut.” No matter what you may hear.”įorbidden to visit the loft of Jón’s house and cautioned to avoid the villagers, Rósa’s new life is hard. You must learn how to please him.”īut later, as they approach the croft Rósa will soon call home, Pétur says: “He is a good man. During the three-day journey on horseback through the rugged land, Pétur cautions Rósa: “Jón’s rage is best avoided. ![]() Rósa’s wedding gift from her new husband is “a woman made of glass and stillness: perfect but easily shattered.”Īfter bidding farewell to Páll, the young man she had hoped to marry, Rósa is escorted to remote Stykkishólmur by Pétur, Jón’s apprentice. Set in 17th-century Iceland, Caroline Lea’s The Glass Woman features Rósa Magnúsdóttir, a young woman who marries Jón Eiríksson, widower and village leader, in order to provide for her ill and impoverished mother. ![]()
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