This just in: Hakarl causes brain damage.
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 ...
They have elves, we have barking moonbats . . .
This just in: Hakarl causes brain damage.
Meanwhile, the Unicorn Lobby is insisting the road be built ASAP.
Does Iceland offer national elf-care?
If Christians believe in angels, or demons, I suppose they can believe that there may be other unseen creatures, good or bad, although it may be more a matter of belief than anything else.
Perhaps what they call elves and fairies are actually demons. I’ve read that the stories told by “UFO Abductees” fit the legends of Fairy abductions.
Maybe it’s all Angels and Demons.
Perhaps I’m being elfish but I don’t like the government taking care of elves. They should learn to be Elf-Sufficient.
It is. Aliens, fairies, whatever the contemporary culture is willing to accept, that’s the manifestation.
And, on a side note, I think I’ll be looking to Iceland for the name of the next child. Gimme something he can’t spell until he’s 18... :)
Almost fifty posts without a mention of the Evil Elf.
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