Grafitti around the world

This graffiti is the beginning of the poem Tunglskinsnætur(‘Moon Shine Nights’) by Tómas Guðmundsson (1901-1983), first published in the ‘Lesbók’ culture section of Alþýðublaðiðnewspaper in 1934.

Tómas Guðmundsson is known as Reykjavíkurskáldið (Reykjavík’s poet) and a statue of him by Halla Gunnarsdóttir was placed on a bench by Tjörnin, the Reykjavík pond, overlooking MR junior college and Fríkirkjan church, in 2010.

Við hafnarbakkann er bærinn fallinn í trans,
þar birtast guðleg musteri í lágum hreysum.
En uppi stíga norðurljós náttlangan dans
í nakinni dýrð eftir himinsins vegaleysum.

Means:

By the wharf the city has fallen into a trance,
there, small sheds turn into divine temples.
And above the northern lights dance all night long
in naked glory along the road-less sky.