14.2.2010


Humorous Icelandic Tales 9






Lighter Footwear

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Once the Reverend Baldur Vilhelmsson at

Vatnsfjörður was complaining about the distances

and bad transportation involved with his parish.

When he had said many bad things about the

roads in the West Fjords and cursed the dispersed

nature of the population in the parish, one of the

listeners interrupted him and asked archly: "That

may be so, but why don’t you take a short cut by

walking across water as Christ did before?"

Reverend Baldur was quick to reply and

said:

"Oh, in those days they had lighter footwear,

don’t you know."