num_pages: 288
description: Out of the countrys fascinating geography and history emerge a plethora of poetic and imaginative Icelandic legends that hold a particular wary respect of nature and a wry wisdom at turns gentle and sharp: that we human beings are mere tenants on earth with no control over weather or ghosts or wild. On the one hand these stories come out of the great wellspring of Scandinavian tales that have so influenced the Western imagination: Here are elves and trolls ghosts goblins and monsters; drama and mystery and moral. But Icelands particular geography its long nights and savage weather also led to the development of a unique oral tradition from which grew the famous Icelandic family sagas and stories.
language: English
title: Hildur, Queen of the Elves and Other Stories: Icelandic Folktales
publisher: Interlink Books