14.2.2010


Humorous Icelandic Tales 10






 

Housing Issues

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The writer Mr. Gudmundur Gislason Hagalin was

a tireless campaigner for the Democratic Party in

Isafjordur and was quite adept at obtaining votes

for his party in the days when the Democrats had

a great deal of support there, during which time

Isafjordur was called the red town. During a

campaign meeting shortly before the mayoral

elections of 1942 Mr. Haukur Helgason of Oddi,

the candidate for the Socialist Party, said that the

moderates ought to be ashamed of the fact that

some housing owned by the town was not fit for

Gudmundur G. Hagalín seen from some angles.

Photographer: Mbl.