She herself had given up washing long ago, and besides, people no longer believed in stale urine, either for one purpose or another.

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

Þar sem jökulinn ber við loft hættir landið að vera jarðneskt, en jörðin fær hlutdeild í himninum, þar búa ekki framar neinar sorgir og þessvegna er gleðin ekki nauðsynleg, þar ríkir fegurðin ein, ofar hverri kröfu.

Vont er þeirra ránglæti, verra þeirra réttlæti.

Well, well, it's enough to make the lice drop dead from my head! Condescend to enter the house.

The story of how He created the world aroused their interests immediately, even though they received no answer to the question of why He had to do it; but they found it difficult to understand sin, or the manner of its entry into the world, for it was a complete mystery to them why the woman should have had such a passionate desire for an apple when they had no idea of the seductive properties of apples and thought they were some sort of potatoes. But less intelligible still was the flood that was caused by forty days' rain, and forty nights'. For here on the moors there were some years when it rained for two hundred days and two hundred nights, almost without fairing; but there was never any Flood.