Explain the significance of Krakauer’s diction in this passage.

"When the first handful of Norwegian showed up on the shores of Iceland in the ninth century the papar decided the country had become too crowded -even though it was still all but uninhabilated. The monk's response was to climb into their curraghs and row off toward Greenland. They were drawn across storm-racked ocean, drawn west past the edge of the known world by nothing more than a hunger of the spirit, a yearming of such queer intensity that it beggars the modern imagination" (97).Explain the significance of Krakauer’s diction in this passage.