According to author Daisy Neijmann, he was "one of the era's most fervent nationalists".

Tómas is quoted by J. R. R. Tolkien as saying "Málin eru höfuðeínkenni þjóðanna..." (Languages are the chief distinguishing marks of peoples ...): Languages are the chief distinguishing marks of peoples.

But that never happens except as the result of oppression and distress.Tómas travelled around Europe from 1832 to 1834, and he became the pastor in Breiðabólsstaður in Fljótshlíð in 1835.

Among other things, Tómas wrote the fifth annual issue of the journal Fjölnir.

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