Earth and Space News: Dimma, Anglicized as The Darkness, Accesses Bishop Jón Vídalín For Us

Summary: Dimma, anglicized as The Darkness, as the first thriller in the three-book Hidden Iceland series by Ragnar Jónasson, accesses Bishop Jón Vídalín for us.

Anger accounts for three to four crimes in Dimma, anglicized as The Darkness. Author Ragnar Jónasson airs a famous quote about anger from Jón Thorkelsson Vídalín (1666-1720), acclaimed Skálholt Bishop (1698-1720), twice, as part of the front matter and within the text of his first thriller in the three-book Hidden Iceland series; 18th-century portrait of Jón Vídalín in National Museum of Iceland: Szilas, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Dimma, anglicized as The Darkness, as first thriller in the three-book Hidden Iceland series about Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir by Ragnar Jónasson, accesses 16th- to 17th-century Lutheran Bishop Jón Vídalín for us.

Hulda Hermannsdóttir, as Detective Inspector in the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) of Hverfisgata police station in Reykjavík, brings up Skálholt Bishop (1698-1720) Jón Thorkelsson Vídalín (1666-1720). She considers Bishop Vídalín cautioning, “Rage, like a bolt from hell, twists a man’s limbs, kindles an inferno in his eyes” (2018: front matter page ix). She perhaps deals with personal and professional disappointments by distancing herself from police hierarchies and by dominating her impulses around family members, albeit all dead now.

Perhaps enduring enmity from childhood experiences and from two tragedies as a 40- and 42-year-old enrage Hulda so that she emphasizes effective ends by errant means.

Bishop Vídalín furnished faithful, forthright, friendly advice in his famous Húss-Postilla (“Sermons for the Home”) from 1718 to 1720, from which time 12 editions faithfully follow.

The Skálholt (“Bard’s Hill”) Bishop gave grounded guidelines to fellow Icelanders groaning from 16th- and 17th-century epidemics generating great hunger and poverty and for their descendants. He honed homey, honest homilies, practically and spiritually helpful, from pre-University, University and post-University homes respectively in Gardhur, southwestern Iceland; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Skálholt, southern Iceland. Country-folk instincts and intuitions in Gardhur (“garden, yard [identified by property boundary-indicative earthen walls]”) and Danish and Icelandic intelligence institutionalized in Copenhagen and Skálholt inspired him.

Dimma, anglicized as The Darkness, journeys Bishop Jón Vídalín, as judicious cultural icon, through three centuries to Hulda, whose jostling cold- and current-case criminals anger jeopardizes.

Knowing what his father, the learned physician and theologian Thorkel, and his grandfather, Arngrímur Jónsson the Learned (1568-June 27, 1648), knew kindled Vídalín’s moniker, Mágister Jón.

Mágister Jón (“Master John”) learned about Íslendingasögur (“Icelander Sagas”) from his learned father and his lauded grandfather and about Lutheran theology in the Danish capital city. Maturing in the Icelandic countryside never meant that Gardhur residents manifested intellectually miserable lifestyles since Landnámabók (“Book of Settlements”) mentions Gardhur among ninth- to 10th-century settlements. Perhaps Mágister Jón numbered among collateral and direct descendants of Steinunn Gamla, whom the medieval Icelandic manuscript noted as first Norseman to nestle into Gardhur niches.

Perhaps Hulda observes old insights into Dimma, anglicized as The Darkness, from Bishop Jón Vídalín because the latter’s family line originated with the first Icelandic occupancies.

The Book of Settlements preserves, as first populator of what we perceive as present-day Iceland, Ingólfr Arnarson (849?-910?), Steinunn’s cousin from Rivedal, Sunnfjord, Kingdom of Fjordane.

Fellow Icelanders quartered from the 18th century onward, even as Icelandic posterity quarters today, the Vídalín Sermons for the Home with the 50-poem Passíusálmar (“Passion Hymns”). The Passion Hymns represent daily reflections on Jesus Christ (6 B.C.E.-A.D. 31/33?) by Hallgrímur Pétursson (1614-Oct. 27, 1674) for workdays during the seven weeks of Lent. Fellow Icelanders sought the Pétursson passion hymns from their first publication in 1666 even as Icelandic posterity shows sustained support with their 68th edition in 1996.

Bishop Jón Vídalín, through Dimma, anglicized as The Darkness, tells us that tempers untamed, untended, untransformed trigger one terminating one life, another two, perhaps three lives.

Other structures no longer around accommodated Jón Thorkelsson Vídalín (1666-1720) as Skálholt Bishop (1698-1720). Both the existing exterior and the extant interior of Skálholt cathedral church are from its 20th-century construction (1956-1963), to acclaim the diocesan founding in 1056, 900 years earlier. The spacious interior nevertheless archives the 17th-century pulpit from which Brynjólfur Sveinsson (Sep. 14, 1605-Aug. 5, 1675), as Skálholt Bishop (1639-1674), and his successors articulated Lutheran beliefs and practices; general view of Skálholt and the cathedral in 2018: Leon petrosyan, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

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