Welcome to Fireside Friday. Cosy chats, reflections and musings by the fireside, for a calm start to the weekend.
There are people who wear a sweater because it is the most comfortable and practical jumper they have. It fits just right, it has just the right collar height and when the cuffs are frayed they repair it (or their spouse does it). And when it falls apart the same spouse (or they themselves) knit a new one. And two or three times during their lifetime, said sweater becomes a trend icon and then for that brief moment in time, everyone walks around in one similar to your own trusted sweater.
This post is about such a jumper, called the “islender”.
If you come into contact with fishermen or others who work outside in Norway, a lot of them will be wearing some kind of variation of this jumper:
It can be found as machine knit sweaters (like the Devold sweater pictured above), or hand knit, chunky or fine.
My dad had one.
I can still rem…