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Updated: May 16, 2025
I once saw a spirit nearly as large as the Skjaldbraid. It came up out of the earth directly before me where I was traveling, and shook its head as if warning me to go back. I was badly frightened, and turned my horse around and went back. Then I heard that my best friend was dying. When he was dead I married his wife.
"Now, Zoega," said I, "how do you make it out that this came from the Skjaldbraid Jokul?" "Well, sir, I don't know, but I think it came from the inside of the world." "Why, Zoega, the world is only a shell a mere egg-shell in Iceland I should fancy filled with fiery gases." "Is that possible, sir?" cried Zoega, in undisguised astonishment. "Yes, quite possible a mere egg-shell!"
How was it possible, I asked, that millions and billions of tons of lava could be vomited forth from the crater of any mountain within sight? Here was a solid bed of lava spread over the valley, and many miles beyond, which, if piled up, shrunken and dried as it was, would of itself make a mountain larger than the Skjaldbraid Jokul, from which it is supposed to have been ejected.
She's a very good woman, sir, and, if you please, I'll get her to make you some coffee when we get back to Reykjavik." So goes the world, thought I, from the Skjaldbraid Jokul to a cup of coffee! Why bother our heads about these troublesome questions, which can only result in proving us all equally ignorant. The wisest has learned nothing save his own ignorance.
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