Icelandic Folktales
Twenty stories of elves from Icelandic folklore and notes on their meaning. Icelandic folklore is...
Twenty stories of elves from Icelandic folklore and notes on their meaning. Icelandic folklore is rife with tales of elves and hidden people that inhabited hills and rocks in the landscape. But what do those elf stories really tell us about the Iceland of old and the people who lived there? In this book, author and translator Alda SigmundsdĂłttir presents twenty elf stories from Icelandic folklore, along with fascinating notes on the context from which they sprung.