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 ...
Club them, kill them with music that goes “unce unce unce unce”, then turn them into pie filler.
You’re elfing kidding me!!!
Has anyone heard from the Garden Gnome contingent? They’re usually very anti-elf (some old story about elves stealing gnome kin in the middle of the night), so I would wait until we hear from them.
I really like beautiful women.
Well, ‘elf and safety seems to rule over much that happens in the UK, so they must exist.
A curious & entertaining read about wee folk & the people who believe in them...
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/ffcc/ffcc002.htm
Red pointy hats=gnomes. :-)
Hawaii has elves, too -menehunies
Every culture has their crazies but their own, unique sub-cultures to contain them.
Me too, but I’ve noticed a discouraging lack of reciprocity.
Heh. Thanks.
(If I got to choose between elves, faeries, & leprechauns and the oddniks we have no other choice but to cope with in present day America, I’d take the wee folk.)
Send me the one on the left, stat. Pretty please. Seriously.
One of my English teachers did a tour of Ireland. They stopped at one town, there was a green in the middle of town with large stones along the edges at regular distances. He asked a local what it was and was told it was a “Fairie fortress.” Its purpose was not to keep fairies out, but to hold them in and protect the town. The locals would not walk through the green. Someone asked him if he walked on the green, he said, he was agnostic about the existence of faries, but did not walk on the green. There was a reason the locals avoided it and he allowed himself to be guided by their experience.
If Christians believe in angels, or demons, I suppose they can believe that there may be other unseen creatures, good or bad, although it may be more a matter of belief than anything else.
ELF; aren’t they the eco-terrorists who blow up or burn things they don’t like, like SUV dealerships?
What difference does it make? We just call our elves, Spotted Owls or Snail Darters.
Combined PING and DANG!
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