In this novel, the protagonist prizes the sheep bred by Reverend Godmundur over all others, and Rosa dies giving birth to the bastard Asta Sollilja.
One character in this novel has a habit of repeating words, resulting in phrases like "a dog is a dog and a man is a man." In this novel, a young boy likens a pot stick to the aristocracy because it is used rarely and only in the preparation of the best meal  meat soup. The protagonist of this novel rides across a frozen river in a blizzard while searching for an animal that he thought ran away, but which his wife slaughtered and ate. Upon his return home from that search, the protagonist finds his wife has died in (*) childbirth. In this novel, a moor that is supposedly haunted by the sorcerer Kolumkilli is renamed Summerhouses by a man who earns his freedom from working on a bailiff's property called Rauthsmyri. In this novel, the protagonist prizes the sheep bred by Reverend Godmundur over all others, and Rosa dies giving birth to the bastard Asta Sollilja. Bjartur works to become one of the title persons in, for 10 points, what novel by Halldor Laxness.
One character in this novel has a habit of repeating words, resulting in phrases like "a dog is a dog and a man is a man.
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