Our faithful Hans, in spite of our entreaties, had left Hamburg; the man to whom we owed all our success and our lives too would not suffer us to reward him as we could have wished. He was seized with the mal de pays, a complaint for which we have not even a name in English.
Hans, a pesar de sus ruegos, se marchó de improviso de Hamburgo. El hombre a quien todo se lo debíamos no quiso permitir que le pagásemos nuestra deuda, minado por la nostalgia que le producía el recuerdo de su querida Islandia.