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08.09.2008 07:51

Göngur & Rétt

As usual the farmers in Aðaldalur went in the first week of September to collect their sheep in Þeistareykirarea. This year Jutta, Gabi and we joined them. On wednesday afternoon we started our trip from Hólmavað to þeistareykir on horseback. It's about 5 hours ride so everybody had at least 1 handhorse to change. We started around 5  in Hólmavað and arrived under the shine of Northern Lights around 10 in Þeistareykir. After we found ourselves some sleepingplaces we went to bed early as some tiring days were awaiting us.
Thursday and friday we collected sheep and drove them south to a fence where they stayed over night to saturday. Saturday morning we started to herd them down to Hraunsrétt where they are sorted out on sunday.
Some sheep had quite different ideas about directions than we... So we often had to go and drive them back or try to stop them from going at all. Not an easy job all the time and some were trying again and again and again... I think everybody was happy, when we had them safe in the fence next to Hraunsrétt.
Sunday at 10 in the morning, the sorting started. We had to look for lambs and sheep with the number 45 Þ 5 on their earmarks and bring them to Bensi's place in the rounduparea. Not so easy as they have been spending the summer free and untouched in the mountains and were therefore not so willing to give up their freedom and let themselves be caught...
Have a look at the pics in "People" - "Göngur & Hraunsrétt 2008"
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