This great land was entirely different from any other place in the world. Its population, large though it was, was composed wholly of boys. The oldest were about fourteen years of age, the youngest, eight.
Hetta stórfingna landið  var fullkomiliga øðrvísi enn nakað annað stað á jørðini. Í landinum búðu, so fjølment tað tó var, bara dreingir. Teir elstu vóru um fjúrtan ára gamlir, teir yngstu átta.