huldufólk

Icelanders believe that huldufólk live in these areas, and leave them alone.

Those who have seen the "huldufólk" would describe them as,"Glowing, light white, attractive".

Icelandic communities in other countries may have lower levels of belief in huldufólk.

The huldufólk seem in many ways to represent the Icelander's dreams of a more perfect and happy existence."

The first book, Huldufólk, was published in 2011 and is inspired in part by Iceland's folklore.

Legend also relates that the canyon is the capital city of the "hidden people" (huldufólk), who live in cracks within the surrounding cliffs.

According to these Icelandic folk beliefs, one should never throw stones because of the possibility of hitting the huldufólk.

The term huldufólk was taken as a synonym of álfar (elves) in 19th century Icelandic folklore.

In modern Iceland, work crews building new roads sometimes divert the road around particular boulders which are thought to be the homes of Huldufólk.

Other folktales claim that huldufólk originate from Lilith, or are fallen angels condemned to live between heaven and hell.

It is customary in Iceland to clean the house before Christmas, and to leave food for the huldufólk on Christmas.

Nobody wants to remove it because it is said to be inhabited by 'huldufólk', a race of elfs or faries that people used to believe in.

The hidden folk (huldufólk) of Iceland take a variety of guises, from mischievous trolls to mountain spirits.

Konrad von Maurer contends that huldufólk originates as a euphemism to avoid calling the álfar by their real name.

Gimli Public School 1915 has an original classroom and artifacts used by the Huldufólk (hidden folk) from Iceland.

Expression of belief in huldufólk or "hidden folk", the elves that dwell in rock formations, is common in Iceland.

In Faroese folk tales, Huldufólk are said to be "large in build, their clothes are all grey, and their hair black.

Anthropologist Kirsten Hastrup found that different ways of asking Icelanders about Huldufólk could elicit very different responses.

Gunnell writes: "different beliefs could have lived side by side in multicultural settlement Iceland before they gradually blended into the latter-day Icelandic álfar and huldufólk."

Huldufólk (Icelandic hidden people from huldu- "pertaining to secrecy" and fólk "people", "folk") are elves in Icelandic folklore.

Prominent are stories that reflect later views of the Vættir, usually called the Huldrefolk (from Old Norse Huldufólk), meaning 'concealed people' and referring to their otherworldliness or their power of invisibility.

The collection of 280 specimens from 93 species of animals includes 55 penises taken from whales, 36 from seals and 118 from land mammals, allegedly including Huldufólk (Icelandic elves) and trolls.

This is most apparent in the worship of Álfar (or Elves), land-spirits, the various beings of folklore (Kobold, Huldufólk), and the belief that inanimate objects can have a fate of their own.

Michael Strmiska writes: "The Huldufólk are... not so much supernatural as ultranatural, representing not an overcoming of nature in the hope of a better deal beyond but a deep reverence for the land and the mysterious powers able to cause fertility or famine."

The Norwegian expressions seldom appear in genuine folklore, and when they do, they are always used synonymous to huldrefolk or vetter, a category of earth-dwelling beings generally held to be more related to Norse dwarves than elves which is comparable to the Icelandic huldufólk (hidden people).