\u00c9g hef nokkrum sinnum heyrt f\u00f3lk v\u00edsa \u00ed Moby Dick sem d\u00e6mi um hve gott \u00fea\u00f0 s\u00e9 a\u00f0 h\u00f6fundar\u00e9ttur gildi eftir dau\u00f0a h\u00f6fundar. Hvorki Melville n\u00e9 fj\u00f6lskylda hans gr\u00e6ddu nokku\u00f0 \u00e1 \u00fev\u00ed \u00feegar b\u00f3kin var\u00f0 loks vins\u00e6l. Sj\u00e1lfur var hann l\u00f6ngu l\u00e1tinn en l\u00edklega \u00e1tti hann einhverja afkomendur \u00e1 l\u00edfi – \u00fe\u00f3 \u00e9g viti \u00fea\u00f0 ekki fyrir v\u00edst.\n<\/p>\n
En er \u00feetta r\u00e9tt t\u00falkun? Hva\u00f0 hef\u00f0i gerst ef h\u00f6fundar\u00e9ttur hef\u00f0i gilt jafn lengi og hann gerir \u00ed dag? Ma\u00f0ur getur spurt sig hvort nokkur hef\u00f0i lagt \u00e1 sig a\u00f0 endur\u00fatgefa Moby Dick – floppa\u00f0a b\u00f3k eftir minnih\u00e1ttar rith\u00f6fund – ef \u00fea\u00f0 hef\u00f0i \u00fe\u00fdtt grei\u00f0slur til afkomenda hans. En ekkert \u00feurfti a\u00f0 borga \u00feannig a\u00f0 b\u00f3kin var gefin \u00fat flj\u00f3tlega eftir dau\u00f0a hans. H\u00e6gt og r\u00f3lega vann h\u00fan \u00e1 og er n\u00fa \u00e1litin meistaraverk. Ef b\u00f3kin hef\u00f0i veri\u00f0 varin h\u00f6fundar\u00e9tt hef\u00f0i \u00feetta ekki gerst. Jafnvel \u00fe\u00f3 \u00fea\u00f0 hef\u00f0i bara veri\u00f0 \u00ed 50 \u00e1r eftir dau\u00f0a hans \u00fe\u00e1 hef\u00f0i Melville l\u00edklega veri\u00f0 algj\u00f6rlega gleymdur og enginn hef\u00f0i haft \u00e1huga \u00e1 b\u00f3kinni. Hva\u00f0 \u00fe\u00e1 eftir 70 \u00e1r e\u00f0a 90 \u00e1r? Dau\u00f0ur, grafinn og gleymdur og vi\u00f0 g\u00e6tum ekki v\u00edsa\u00f0 \u00ed hv\u00edta hvalinn.\n<\/p>\n
Eru ekki g\u00f3\u00f0ar l\u00edkur \u00e1 \u00fev\u00ed a\u00f0 vi\u00f0 h\u00f6fum s\u00ed\u00f0ustu \u00f6ld me\u00f0 \u00f6flugri h\u00f6fundar\u00e9tt tapa\u00f0 t\u00f6luvert af g\u00f3\u00f0um b\u00f3kum, jafnvel st\u00f6ku meistaraverki, \u00ed limb\u00f3 h\u00f6fundar\u00e9ttar hinna dau\u00f0u?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00c9g hef nokkrum sinnum heyrt f\u00f3lk v\u00edsa \u00ed Moby Dick sem d\u00e6mi um hve gott \u00fea\u00f0 s\u00e9 a\u00f0 h\u00f6fundar\u00e9ttur gildi eftir dau\u00f0a h\u00f6fundar. Hvorki Melville n\u00e9 fj\u00f6lskylda hans gr\u00e6ddu nokku\u00f0 \u00e1 \u00fev\u00ed \u00feegar b\u00f3kin var\u00f0 loks vins\u00e6l. Sj\u00e1lfur var hann l\u00f6ngu l\u00e1tinn en l\u00edklega \u00e1tti hann einhverja afkomendur \u00e1 l\u00edfi – \u00fe\u00f3 \u00e9g viti \u00fea\u00f0 … Halda \u00e1fram a\u00f0 lesa: Sorgarsaga h\u00f6fundar\u00e9ttar og Moby Dick<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,85],"tags":[264],"class_list":["post-7800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-77","category-hofundarettur","tag-q1297822"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/oligneisti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/oligneisti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/oligneisti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/oligneisti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/oligneisti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/oligneisti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23486,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/oligneisti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7800\/revisions\/23486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/oligneisti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/oligneisti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/oligneisti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}