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Rósa Gudmundsdóttir
Sigga is Agnes's coworker at Illugastir, Fridrik's fiancée, and Natan's employee and lover. Sigga is a pretty girl of fifteen. She is not particularly smart. Natan, who hired Sigga as a housekeeper, sleeps with Sigga regularly. When Sigga falls in love with Fridrik, Natan does not want Sigga to marry him. Sigga does not actively participate in the murders of Natan and Pétur, and her sentence gets commuted to imprisonment rather than execution because everyone thinks her youth and beauty must mean that she is innocent.
Sigrídur Gudmundsdóttir (Sigga) Quotes in Burial Rites
The Burial Rites quotes below are all either spoken by Sigrídur Gudmundsdóttir (Sigga) or refer to Sigrídur Gudmundsdóttir (Sigga). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5
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I’ll tell you something, Reverend Tóti. All my life people have thought I was too clever…That’s exactly why they don’t pity me. Because they think I’m too smart… to get caught up in this by accident. But Sigga is dumb and pretty and young, and that is why they don’t want to see her die…They see I’ve got a head on my shoulders, and believe a thinking woman cannot be trusted. Believe there’s no room for innocence. And like it or not, Reverend, that is the truth of it.
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Chapter 7
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“Why not Sigga?” Tóti asked in a small voice.
Blöndal shook his head. “The maid of sixteen who burst into tears as soon as I summoned her? Sigga didn’t even attempt to lie—she is too simple-minded, too young to know how. She told me everything. How Agnes hated Natan, how Agnes was jealous of his attentions to her. Sigga is not bright, but she saw that much.”
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Sigrídur Gudmundsdóttir (Sigga) Quotes in Burial Rites
The Burial Rites quotes below are all either spoken by Sigrídur Gudmundsdóttir (Sigga) or refer to Sigrídur Gudmundsdóttir (Sigga). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5
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I’ll tell you something, Reverend Tóti. All my life people have thought I was too clever…That’s exactly why they don’t pity me. Because they think I’m too smart… to get caught up in this by accident. But Sigga is dumb and pretty and young, and that is why they don’t want to see her die…They see I’ve got a head on my shoulders, and believe a thinking woman cannot be trusted. Believe there’s no room for innocence. And like it or not, Reverend, that is the truth of it.
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Chapter 7
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“Why not Sigga?” Tóti asked in a small voice.
Blöndal shook his head. “The maid of sixteen who burst into tears as soon as I summoned her? Sigga didn’t even attempt to lie—she is too simple-minded, too young to know how. She told me everything. How Agnes hated Natan, how Agnes was jealous of his attentions to her. Sigga is not bright, but she saw that much.”
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