One of the loveliest and most magnificent events that can happen in the country is when ponies take fright, particularly in a herd.Then all at once it is as if the fire has started flowing right under these strange creatures, they charge away like a storm incarnate over scree and bogs and landslides, dipping the tips of their toes for a fractional moment into the furnace that blazes beneath their hooves
Halldór Laxness