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Elf lobby blocks Iceland road project
Guardian (UK) ^ | Sunday 22 December 2013 05.56 EST

Posted on 12/22/2013 6:19:05 AM PST by DeaconBenjamin

Elf advocates in Iceland joined forces with environmentalists to urge authorities to abandon a highway project that they claim will disturb elf habitat.

The project has been halted until the supreme court of Iceland rules on a case brought by a group known as Friends of Lava, who cite both the environmental impact and the detrimental effect on elf culture of the road project.

The group has regularly mobilised hundreds of people to block bulldozers building a direct route from the tip of the Álftanes peninsula, where the president has a property, to the Reykjavik suburb of Gardabaer.

Issues about Huldufolk (Icelandic for "hidden folk") have affected planning decisions before, and the road and coastal administration has come up with a stock media response for elf inquiries, which states in part that "issues have been settled by delaying the construction project at a certain point while the elves living there have supposedly moved on".

A survey conducted by the University of Iceland in 2007 found that 62% of the 1,000 respondents thought it was at least possible that elves exist.

Ragnhildur Jonsdottir, a self-proclaimed "seer", believes she can communicate with the creatures through telepathy.

"This is a land where your house can be destroyed by something you can't see (earthquakes), where the wind can knock you off your feet, where the smell of sulphur from your taps tells you there is invisible fire not far below your feet, where the northern lights make the sky the biggest television screen in the world, and where hot springs and glaciers 'talk'," Gunnell said.

"In short, everyone is aware that the land is alive, and one can say that the stories of hidden people and the need to work carefully with them reflects an understanding that the land demands respect."

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: iceland; napl
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1 posted on 12/22/2013 6:19:05 AM PST by DeaconBenjamin
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To: DeaconBenjamin

You’re effing kidding me.


2 posted on 12/22/2013 6:21:06 AM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ( "It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.")
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Santa had no comment.


3 posted on 12/22/2013 6:21:50 AM PST by Rodamala
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To: Hoosier-Daddy

Our perhaps Elfing kidding me...


4 posted on 12/22/2013 6:22:52 AM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ( "It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of ingtheir political choices.")
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To: Hoosier-Daddy

They don’t realize that the elfs would probably like the traffic. Think of the fun they’d have when the figure out the programming on modern automobiles. And, then there’s all the gold they’d get when they set up roadblocks and demanded payment to use their road. These elfists have it all wrong.


5 posted on 12/22/2013 6:24:07 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Produce pics of them, or they don’t exist. Same category as Santa Claus and Moderate Democrats.


6 posted on 12/22/2013 6:28:02 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature ($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
Produce pics of them, or they don’t exist.

Here is a picture of the Elven Department of Homeland Security.


7 posted on 12/22/2013 6:37:25 AM PST by Rodamala
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To: DeaconBenjamin

“Elf advocates in Iceland joined forces with environmentalists.”

Same people.


8 posted on 12/22/2013 6:37:58 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
Produce pics of them, or they don’t exist.

Produce a picture of a radio wave, or electricity.

Or God.

Much that is there is not seen.

Never say never.

9 posted on 12/22/2013 6:41:13 AM PST by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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To: Hoosier-Daddy

Have you ever been to Iceland? It’s a truly primal but beautiful place. Beautiful women and not a pajama boy among the men. But the countryside is primal and it’s not difficult to understand why some of the less stable minds amount them would think elves are real.


10 posted on 12/22/2013 6:45:38 AM PST by Afterguard (Liberals will let you do anything you want, as long as it's mandatory.)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

I thought they were talking about the Earth Liberation Front. This is real elves they are talking about. This puts a whole different light on it.


11 posted on 12/22/2013 6:50:04 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (This is not just stupid, we're talking Democrat stupid here.)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Well, if I recall my lore correctly, angry elves are not to be trifled with, think pouring water on those cuddly little critters, I forget the name of the movie but they turn into monsters. So, the Icelandic Elf Lobby is really just worried about national security, lol.


12 posted on 12/22/2013 6:50:11 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: DeaconBenjamin; Darksheare
Elf advocates in Iceland joined forces with environmentalists ...

Darks?

13 posted on 12/22/2013 6:53:50 AM PST by Tax-chick ("Our infinite sadness can only be cured by an infinite love." ~Pope Francis)
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To: Hoosier-Daddy
I once got committed to a two month TDY to Iceland. Our team was there to optimize a Tropo link between Reykjavik and Hofn. Hofn was on the east end of the island on a little peninsula that had a gravel runway and a road over the glacier/tundra to Reykjavik.

The team I was on lost the toss and had to fly a Navy tail dragger (basically a newer C-47 version) to the radar detachment at Hofn (it was there to spot Russkie Bombers).

I was the lowest ranking man, and they decided to put me in a room just big enough for a bed and locker. They didn't let me move from there until I figured out I had to ask for it ( I guess they wanted to see if I'd go nuts or something). Off track here.

Anyway, the site had a club that flowed beer freely. Many of the Navy Waves at Reykjavik who wanted ‘company’ for the weekend would fly up on the plane and spend the weekend. They were treated like queens.

While I was there, they ran out of beer, and the weather didn't let the plane fly, so they tagged a special semi to make the trek overland to bring the beer. It was a long wait.

14 posted on 12/22/2013 6:54:36 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Tax-chick; DeaconBenjamin

Ack, elf?!
Flouncy elf, enslaved sweatshop minion of Santa type elf, or earth liberation front elf?
Not my fault unless the elf was on fire!


15 posted on 12/22/2013 6:59:20 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Gremlins.


16 posted on 12/22/2013 6:59:56 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Darksheare

Kill-you type elf, I think. Have to be tough to make it as an elf in Iceland.


17 posted on 12/22/2013 7:01:51 AM PST by Tax-chick ("Our infinite sadness can only be cured by an infinite love." ~Pope Francis)
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To: Gen.Blather

Funny commercial involving gnomes and cars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOHtTO39E3M


18 posted on 12/22/2013 7:02:30 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: DeaconBenjamin
If these are Elves, I want one.
19 posted on 12/22/2013 7:04:08 AM PST by EEGator
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To: RegulatorCountry

Did someone say, “angry elf”?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ_dL_IMPP4


20 posted on 12/22/2013 7:05:10 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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