"High in the North in a land called……" — Hendrik Willem van Loon

"High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak. When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed"

Hendrik Willem van Loon

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