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56 Cards in this Set
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Page 1 Where is she |
I will vanish into the air and the night [...] Where will I be then?
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what they want the priest do do to the criminals |
“directthis murderess the way of truth and repentance” through the “apply[ing] theLord’s whip to her” |
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Page 17 - where they placed the criminals |
This is why I decided that they should be placed on farms, homes of upright Christians.
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Page 32 - toti thoughts on agnes |
We are all God's children [...] this woman is my sister in Jesus |
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Page 33 - agnes education |
an excellent intellect and a string understanding of christainity |
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Page 34 (when she is released from her room at Stora-Borg and goes outside/sees nature) |
I turned my face upward as if in prayer. |
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page 35 - what ppl think of her after the mrders |
"people did not see me. I was two dead men" |
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page 37 ravens |
"cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness" |
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Page 39 Margaret on Agnes |
I do not like to share my home with the devils children |
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Page 40 - Traditions? |
Are you a man of traditions? If they are noble and christian |
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Page 41 on sigga |
too young and sweet to die |
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Mural thing |
"being a man of economic mindfulness had allowed the mural to be painted over" |
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Page 52 - physical signs of evil - equating good to beauty |
evidence of the Devil: harelip, a snaggle tooth, birthmark; some small outer defect " |
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Natan - good or not Roslin and Margret |
"good is not a word I think many choose for Natan and Petur" "But they were good [..] noble icelanders" |
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Agnes on stories |
"I prefer a story to a prayer" "books written by man, not God, are faithless friends and not for your kind" |
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S T O N E |
"put it under your tongue and you will be able to talk to birds" |
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Toti - first approach in spiritual guidance |
"We ought to begin with a prayer" |
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page 81 - agnes on church men |
"i haven't met many churchmen i care for" |
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gods a bitch to agnes |
"god has had his chance to free me, and for reasons known to him alone, he has pinned me to ill fortune ' |
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toti lol |
"all those lofty words had fallen flat" |
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mean dad moment |
"Dont disgrace yourself boy" "before returing to his scripture" |
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poor agnes |
"bastard pauper with a conniving spirit" |
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whore agnes?? |
"the valley is small and she had a reputation for a sharp tongue and loose skirts" |
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agnes writes sins and tragedies |
"As though a prayer could simply pluck a sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place" |
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natan on religion |
"natan did not believe in sin" "He built his church from wives’ tales and the secret language of weather " |
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agnes family |
I don't have any family. My mother left me when I was six |
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Agnes fate |
Sometimes people never stood a chance from the beginning |
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this dang valley |
No matter how much you try to live a godly life , if you make a mistake in this valley it is never forgotten |
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Agnes's motgher |
She did what a number of women do harmlessly in secret - agnes a loose woman - ingibjorg |
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agnes mom 2 |
" Rafnsdottir" "no doves come from ravens eggs" |
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thinking women |
"a thinking woman cannot be trusted" |
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those powerful men being hypocritical |
" they say they're carrying out God's law, but they're only doing the will of men" |
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she tries |
"try to love god [.] but i cannot love these men" |
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blondal not appreciating what he has |
roar of the servants from becoming more than a mild disturbance" |
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blondal on agnes |
" she struck me as especially godless during the trial" |
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how to covert her 2 |
" the stern voice of a priest delivering the threat of brinstone" |
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Blondals justofication for being a cruel man |
" I am not a cruel man but I am god-fearing" |
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Blondal and toti |
"You mean to make an example of her" "i mean to deliver god's justice here on earth" |
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Agnes having to survive by being "immoral" etc |
"has stenia ever had to decide whether to let the farmer up under her skirts and face the wrath of his wife [...], or to deny him and find herself homeless in the snow and fog" |
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drean |
"We met in a dream" "I was dropped into the earth, buried in silence and it was unbearable" |
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god - dont know |
"I would be lying if I said I wasn't frightened by what I did not know. But we have God" |
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agnes's mother |
"go to hell for leaving two children to the mercy of the parish, which was no kind of mercy at all" |
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AGnes's dumb animals |
"Do these dumb animals know their fate? I have been in the killing pen for months" |
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Lauga |
" everyone in the valley gives us strange looks" |
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toti forgetting his bible |
gave toti his New Testament. "you forgot this" |
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natan and agnes - the new religion |
"in those early visits it was as though we were building something scared" |
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Natan is athiest |
" I don't believe in heaven" "It's a lie. Man has created God out of fear of dying" |
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Agnes Jonsdottir |
"Agnes Jonsdottir. she sounds like the woman I should have been [..] born into a blessed marriage. Born into a family that would not be ripped apart by poverty. She would have been assured a place in heaven. She would have believed in heaven" |
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Agnes about toti |
" I make him doubt his belief in a loving Lord" |
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Totis dad |
She is not worth the time you give her |
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Je SUS |
And what of the Son of God? Did he die only for the righteous? You are not the Son of God |
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Agnes finna die but the wind still there |
"you will be gone and the wind will still be there" "does not care whether you are alive or dead" |
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Agnes on wind |
"only the wind speaks and it will not talk sense" |
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After death with no god |
" you will be lost. There is no final home, there is no burial, there is only a constant scattering, a thwarted journey [..] for there is no home, there is only this cold island" |
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day of execution |
"Toti I dont think I'm ready" |
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what is up there |
" The woman looked at the blank sky" |