The Little Book of the Hidden People Sigmundsdottir Alda
The Little Book of the Hidden People Sigmundsdottir Alda Icelandic folklore is rife with tales of elves and hidden people that inhabited hills and rocks in the landscape. In this book, author Alda…
Specifikacia The Little Book of the Hidden People Sigmundsdottir Alda
The Little Book of the Hidden People Sigmundsdottir Alda
Icelandic folklore is rife with tales of elves and hidden people that inhabited hills and rocks in the landscape. In this book, author Alda Sigmundsd ttir presents twenty translated elf stories from Icelandic folklore, along with fascinating notes on the context from which they sprung.The international media has had a particular infatuation with the Icelanders' elf belief, generally using it to propagate some kind of "kooky Icelanders" myth. But what do those elf stories really tell us about the Iceland of old and the people who lived there?
That is what the stories of the elves, or hidden people, are really about.In a country that was, at times, virtually Yet Iceland's elf folklore, at its core, reflects the plight of a nation living in abject poverty on the edge of the inhabitable world, and its people's heroic efforts to survive, physically, emotionally and spiritually.
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