Collingwood painting of Drangey, larger version.

Drangey by moonlight, looking east. To the right of the island is the rock spire Kerling. Höfðaströnd is in the background. The sketch was made on 18/19 August 1897 by W. G. Collingwood who noted:

As we steamed into the fjord, rolling in the swell of the open sea after rough weather, the sunset died away in purple and rosy light on the hills, and gave place to a cold blue twilight, with a moon that silvered the snowy summits. Drangey stood grim and grey upon the water, seeming unapproachable, with bare sides and bare top, the most inhospitable of abodes.

Here Grettir the Strong took refuge after fifteen or sixteen years of outlawry. . . . (PSI169)

Source: National Museum of Iceland (Þjóðminjasafn Íslands).

Copyright © 1996-8 Dick Ringler. All rights reserved.

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