Greedy king! It has created hostility between animals and humans! I whispered hostile words to the animals! Why do you want to own? Don't you know that if something exceeds its limit, it turns into its opposite?
She grabbed him, and it was like she grabbed his soul and turned it inside out. For a moment, the ice disappeared, and everything turned black. Damon found himself surrounded by people from the past and the future. The lives, faces, and events seemed to him like mirages, or fragments of the rainbow. A "ray of sunshine" came walking toward him, brilliant and transparent, as if it had come from the Coptic twilight.

كاتب وروائي (وهو أيضًا من المناصرين للبيئة المشهورين، حيث امتدَّ نشاطه لسنوات عديدة من أجل حماية المرتفعات الأيسلندية)، له العديد من الأعمال الروائية والقصصية والشعرية وفي أدب الأطفال، ونال العديد من الجوائز الأدبية، ومنها جائزة الأدب الأيسلندي لعامَيْ 2006 و2013، وتُرجِمَت كتبه إلى العديد من اللغات الأخرى. صدرت ترجمة روايته "تابوت الزمن" عن مركز المحروسة.