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þagnarbarn sem leika og mæla aldrei örð af vörum silent child who plays without words þjoðlegar sagnir og æventýri, Ingólfur Jónsson Engi er alheimskur, ef þegja má. Nobody is completely stupid, if he can be silent. Grettis saga Það er löng leið frá Íslandi til Himnaríkis. It is a long road from Iceland to Heaven. Gullna hliðið (The Pearly Gates), Davíð Stefánsson Margt skipast á mannsævi. Many things are settled in a lifetime. Heimskringla, Snorri Sturluson Ekkert veitir slíka yfirburði sem það að vera dauður. Nothing grants such an advantage as being dead. Brot (Fragments), Jóhann Sigurjónsson I don`t understand the origin I don`t understand love I don`t understand death Unworthy of those three things Sigfús Daðason, Three Things Land! Such a land! lifting from the ocean! Still forged by fire, cold, and water, A roaring island as it was at Creation! Planted in a semicircle of old lands. Hannes Pétursson, Ode to Iceland You know the land with gentle brow, blue mountain peaks and singing swans and trout in brooks, and fields where joyful flowers grow, and sheer cascades and ocean bright, and glacier pate of white - may the Lord anoint that place with blessings while the world has days. Jónas Hallgrímsson, Homage to Iceland My place is here, where Europe ends and the wastes of planet take over, A fiery sea grave, with its ice-blue wall on one side Hannes Pétursson, Iceland Hear the bubbling bright spring, hear the brood of swans sing, this is Iceland`s song. Hear the river on shallows roaring, falls over cliffside pouring: this is Iceland`s song. Grímur Thomsen, The Lay of the Land Though hot springs may cool and naked glacier hide the dale, stones may speak and whatever - Forget you - I shall never. Rósa Guðmundsdóttir, Vatnsenda-Rósa