He was humorous, serious, a disciplinarian, tender and loving and had no patience for pretentions. He quicky became an enfant terrible in the Faroese world of literature. He allowed himself to question everything which soundlessly had been accepted as the ultimate truth. He was disgusted by all kinds of pretentions and often shook the pretty covers. He highlighted what was rotten in society but he also wrote the most beautiful of love poems and powerful ballads.