Posted on 12/22/2013 6:19:05 AM PST by DeaconBenjamin
Elf advocates in Iceland joined forces with environmentalists to urge authorities to abandon a highway project that they claim will disturb elf habitat.
The project has been halted until the supreme court of Iceland rules on a case brought by a group known as Friends of Lava, who cite both the environmental impact and the detrimental effect on elf culture of the road project.
The group has regularly mobilised hundreds of people to block bulldozers building a direct route from the tip of the Álftanes peninsula, where the president has a property, to the Reykjavik suburb of Gardabaer.
Issues about Huldufolk (Icelandic for "hidden folk") have affected planning decisions before, and the road and coastal administration has come up with a stock media response for elf inquiries, which states in part that "issues have been settled by delaying the construction project at a certain point while the elves living there have supposedly moved on".
A survey conducted by the University of Iceland in 2007 found that 62% of the 1,000 respondents thought it was at least possible that elves exist.
Ragnhildur Jonsdottir, a self-proclaimed "seer", believes she can communicate with the creatures through telepathy.
"This is a land where your house can be destroyed by something you can't see (earthquakes), where the wind can knock you off your feet, where the smell of sulphur from your taps tells you there is invisible fire not far below your feet, where the northern lights make the sky the biggest television screen in the world, and where hot springs and glaciers 'talk'," Gunnell said.
"In short, everyone is aware that the land is alive, and one can say that the stories of hidden people and the need to work carefully with them reflects an understanding that the land demands respect."
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
You’re effing kidding me.
Santa had no comment.
Our perhaps Elfing kidding me...
They don’t realize that the elfs would probably like the traffic. Think of the fun they’d have when the figure out the programming on modern automobiles. And, then there’s all the gold they’d get when they set up roadblocks and demanded payment to use their road. These elfists have it all wrong.
Produce pics of them, or they don’t exist. Same category as Santa Claus and Moderate Democrats.
Produce pics of them, or they dont exist.
Here is a picture of the Elven Department of Homeland Security.
“Elf advocates in Iceland joined forces with environmentalists.”
Same people.
Produce a picture of a radio wave, or electricity.
Or God.
Much that is there is not seen.
Never say never.
Have you ever been to Iceland? It’s a truly primal but beautiful place. Beautiful women and not a pajama boy among the men. But the countryside is primal and it’s not difficult to understand why some of the less stable minds amount them would think elves are real.
I thought they were talking about the Earth Liberation Front. This is real elves they are talking about. This puts a whole different light on it.
Well, if I recall my lore correctly, angry elves are not to be trifled with, think pouring water on those cuddly little critters, I forget the name of the movie but they turn into monsters. So, the Icelandic Elf Lobby is really just worried about national security, lol.
Darks?
The team I was on lost the toss and had to fly a Navy tail dragger (basically a newer C-47 version) to the radar detachment at Hofn (it was there to spot Russkie Bombers).
I was the lowest ranking man, and they decided to put me in a room just big enough for a bed and locker. They didn't let me move from there until I figured out I had to ask for it ( I guess they wanted to see if I'd go nuts or something). Off track here.
Anyway, the site had a club that flowed beer freely. Many of the Navy Waves at Reykjavik who wanted ‘company’ for the weekend would fly up on the plane and spend the weekend. They were treated like queens.
While I was there, they ran out of beer, and the weather didn't let the plane fly, so they tagged a special semi to make the trek overland to bring the beer. It was a long wait.
Ack, elf?!
Flouncy elf, enslaved sweatshop minion of Santa type elf, or earth liberation front elf?
Not my fault unless the elf was on fire!
Gremlins.
Kill-you type elf, I think. Have to be tough to make it as an elf in Iceland.
Funny commercial involving gnomes and cars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOHtTO39E3M
Did someone say, “angry elf”?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ_dL_IMPP4
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