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| - Arngeirr's Song is a poem by Charles Alexander Bennett, written as a child. While as a youth, Charles was known as 'Arngeirr' before he had anglicized his name. Charles at the age of eleven struggled to understand English, and refused to talk or write in English when he was home with his family. While as a child, Charles father, Aron, was a fishermen during the fishing seasons for a local company to try and make keep up with payments. On 1967, a small typhoon struck the northern tip of the Stephen Headland while the men were at sea. Charles mother, whom trying to keep the childrens fears at bay asked for the children to write 'prayers' or songs to their father so that they he may come back safely. While the poem was originally in Icelandic, the poem was translated by the Charleston Academy to English in 2013.
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