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While fettered Loki lay concealed
from this is the north by Jónas Hallgrímsson
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[tab id=3]this is the north
You stood on Hekla’s lofty peak
and gazed across the land so tender,
onwards shining rivers meander
through green plains to a sea of blue.
While fettered Loki lay concealed
at the glacier’s root in his rocky den –
was not Iceland to your eyes then
a wonderous spectacle to behold?
– Jónas Hallgrímsson, from To M. Paul Gaimard
Translated by Bernard Scudder
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