 In his eyes, it was unlikely that an Icelander like Ásmundsson would have been as interested in the East End as Stoker was.In May 2018, De Roos set out to create an English and German translation of the Swedish preface, which - unlike the Icelandic preface - continued after the "Hamlet" quote.He discovered that especially the last part, omitted from "Makt myrkranna", was almost literally copied from the memoirs of a Lutheran pastor, Bernhard Wadstörm.