The second volume of memoirs starts when he
goes to Tvøroyri for secondary school. He describes his schooling and certain
events that took place in Tvøroyri at that time. In his spare time, he tended
animals on pasture, went bird hunting, even on the island Lítla Dímun, where
they would catch puffins with nets. When he left school, he became a fisherman.
He first signed on with the schooner Yvonna, then he fished in Greenlandic
waters, using both longline and handline, and then he changed to herring. Later
he signed on with an Icelandic fishing boat and trawler.
Respectfully and tenderly he describes
villagers and fellow sailors, and he vividly narrates life on board schooners, smacks
and trawlers. For readers who have
not experienced life on board a smack and only heard of fishing with longlines
and handlines in Greenlandic waters, or casting herring nets in Faroese waters,
this makes for fascinating reading. The same goes for the description of
fishing in Iceland and life on board trawlers there, which many Faroese
fishermen experienced in the 50s.
Finally, he moves to Denmark to train as a
teacher. The book concludes when he, now a married man and new father, returns
to the Faroes to work as a teacher.