“It's an honor to be beheaded. Even a little churl becomes a man by being beheaded.”

— Halldór Laxness

Hólmfastur Guðmundsson
Íslandsklukkan (Iceland's Bell) (1946), Part I: Iceland's Bell

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Icelandic author 1902–1998

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