" Who has ever wandered through such forests, in a length of many miles, in a boundless expanse, without a path, without a goal, amid their monstrous shadows, their sacred gloom, without being filled with deep reverence for the sublime greatness of Nature above all human agency, without feeling the grandeur of the idea which forms the basis of Vidar’s essence? "

― Snorri Sturluson , The Viking Anthology: Norse Myths, Icelandic Sagas and Viking Chronicles