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Once again, she was a sojourner in Óseyri in Axlarfjörà°ur- this time staying in the decent house of a man from the fishermen's union and his wife. Salka was given a garret room, beneath the sloping roof. She said little about her circumstances - only that she had moved out. She asked the couple to leave her alone, shut the door, took her duvet out of her sack and pulled it over herself. Wet snow blew in from the sea; the weather was cold, but not freezing. She shivered and wrapped the duvet tighter around her, but only shivered all the more.