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Vatnabyggd: An Icelandic Settlement in Saskatchewan
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Of course my grandmother, the Ejyolfson [Gudbjorg Eyolfson Halldorson], her mother was gored by an ox just before she was to be born, and Gudbjorg Goodman - no Gudrun Goodman, was the midwife and she happened to be staying at her place when this happened and so she saved the baby, she couldn't save the mother. And my grandmother had a nick on the back of her head where the horn had nicked her in the womb. she took that scar to her grave. So there was only one child from that - that was their first child, in fact he never even seen her till she was six months old, I think. He was working in Ontario and went back probably to work on the railroad or bush or something. So that's another big story but that's already been written up.

Helgason, Helgi

 

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