14.2.2010
Humorous Icelandic Tales 14
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board the side trawler Solborg IS 260 from
Isafjordur. Mr. Pall Palsson was the captain and
the catch was abundant that day. The deck was
covered in fish flopping around and the crew was
busy emptying the net and gutting the fish.
Captain Pall was set on deploying the trawl again
and thought the crew was rather slow in getting
the fish out of the net and moving it off the deck
into the hold.
One of the seamen, Lindal Magnusson (called
Dalli), was standing on deck and gutting fish like
a man possessed. The captain now took off one
of his shoes and threw it at another member of
the crew, who he though was moving rather slowly
at his work. The skipper missed and the shoe
landed in the pile of fish next to Dalli.
"It is amazing what manner of rubbish gets into
the trawl", then said Dalli, as he took up the shoe
and threw it overboard.
Working the Net
This happened some time during the fifties on