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Pastor Jón Prímus has a word with the overnight guest that evening as he sits on the edge of his bed, still glancing through his notes: Some southerners gave me dried halibut; would you like some of that? says the parish pastor.
Strange to say "that" about dried halibut. Certainly, Icelandic doesn't have a partitive article like French, but it would have been politer and better Icelandic to have said for example: I was given fish; may I offer you some of it? Pastor Jón Prímus: It costs £10 a kilo, they were saying-the most expensive food in the world apart from mammoth meat from the tundras.