“I came to you a crossbearer on a stretcher and an outcast from humanity, and I went from you a conqueror of life.”

Ólafur talking to Þórunn
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Two: The Palace of the Summerland

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Icelandic author 1902–1998

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