In George Powell's inventory this painting is listed under 'Illustrative Paintings from Poems, Stories and Icelandic Legends by G.E.J.Powell'. However it remains unclear which poem, story or legend this painting refers to
Imaginative / fantastical mountain landscape representing Iceland?, 'Secret of the Desolation'; foreground, on the left, sharply pointed glacial ice; middleground, a glacier surrounds a huge stone tablet, the latter inscribed with runes and observed by a robed, male figure who holds a palm leaf?; background, a glacier descends down a rugged mountain valley. Painted in washes with body colour for areas of detail
