Swedish news paper Göteborgsposten named him the third most influential Icelander in Sweden, after legendary medieval historian Snorri Sturluson and Nobel prize winner Halldor Laxness.
We are like cats, you know? All Icelanders goes different ways. You can not put cats together and make a flock of cats march. But you can do it to dogs. So Icelanders are like cats. Every Icelander goes his own way.