The Dark Folk of Iceland: Elves, Trolls, Ghosts, Outlaws, Sea Spirits, and the Hidden World of Icelandic Legend (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798199763370)

The old stories of Iceland were never gentle.

They came from lava fields, black beaches, winter farms, sea cliffs, glacier roads, and the long dark interiors of a country where the land itself seemed alive.

The Dark Folk of Iceland explores the hidden beings, haunted places, and strange legends preserved in Icelandic folklore, drawing on the great collections of Jón Árnason and the oral traditions that carried these tales across centuries.

Inside this atmospheric folklore study, you will discover:

Hidden folk living inside rocks, hills, and lava formations

Trolls who haunt the edges of night and stone

Ghosts, revenants, sea spirits, and outlaw legends

The eerie stories behind elf churches, enchanted tools, and haunted farms

The darker moral world of Icelandic folk belief

The landscape, history, and cultural memory behind the tales

This is not a book of pretty fairy stories. These are legends of respect, danger, survival, grief, bargain, punishment, and wonder.

In Iceland, the visible world was never the whole world.

And the old people knew it.

A rich and haunting journey into Icelandic legend, perfect for readers of folklore, mythology, hidden folk traditions, Norse culture, ghosts, trolls, elves, and the darker side of fairy belief.