- Margit and her older sister Katla are fleeing across Iceland after their mother is burned at the stake for practicing witchcraft.
- The story she tells reflects surreal, folkloric themes of maternal loss, transformation, and children caught between the human world and the realm of spirits or birds.
- Once there were two children whose mother was a bird. They flew away with her to the land of the birds, but she sent them back among people to take care of their father. But when they returned from the land of the birds, their father had found a new wife and did not know them. She closed their father's eyes to them and filled his hearing with her voice. She sent her laughter over the mountains and he followed. The children called after him, but he did not know their voices. And so they stayed behind, and they knew what the birds know
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