Do you believe in elves? A majority of people in Iceland do — and author Nancy Marie Brown thinks you should, too:
maintains that looking at myths and how various cultures think about the planet can help shape the actions we take to protect it.
“I cannot see them, but I can feel that sense that I'm not alone,” she says. “For me, it's the glaciers that are the most sentient. You do feel that there are eyes watching you. It's this being all the time. You're being watched by these large earth giants.”Icelanders believe in elves! If you’ve read anything about Iceland in the last twenty years, you’ve read this. It was already a cliché in 2004.
For centuries Icelanders ate great auks and their eggs; they stuffed pillows with their feathers, fine as eiderdown. A large colony bred on the steep-sided rocks called the Great Auk Skerries, in a channel notorious for crosscurrents. In 1808, British sailors anchored near the skerries and killed all the great auks they could find; a Faroese ship did the same in 1813. By 1821, the skerries were nearly bare of great auks; nine years later, during an undersea volcanic eruption, the rocks sank.
The tales so far may be true. According to Hjalmar Bardarson’s Birds of Iceland, a dozen men drowned at the Great Auk Skerries in 1628. Two boats on their way there were lost at sea in 1639. In 1732 auk hunters arriving after a long hiatus found two hovels, three cudgels, and “some weather-beaten human skeletons.”
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