Commonplace Folklore: Day XXIII

Alda Sigmundsdóttir

“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. That is what the stories of the elves, or the hidden people, are really about.”

Alda Sigmundsdóttir, The Little Book of the Hidden People, twenty stories of elves from Icelandic folklore, published in 2015.