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Alda Sigmundsdottir
Alda Sigmundsdottir är en uppskattad författare inom Samhälle och politik med totalt 1 bok tillgängliga på Bokkollen, utgivna hos Little Books Publishing.
Bland verken finns The Little Book of the Hidden People: Twenty stories of elves from Icelandic folklore, som toppar listan över Alda Sigmundsdottirs populäraste böcker. Verken spänner över samhälle & politik och tilltalar läsare som uppskattar genren.
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The Little Book of the Hidden People: Twenty stories of elves from Icelandic folklore
Icelandic folklore is rife with tales of elves and hidden people that inhabited hills and rocks in the landscape. But what do those elf stories really tell us about the Iceland of old and the people who lived there? In this book, author Alda Sigmundsd ttir presents twenty translated elf stories from Icelandic folklore, along with fascinating notes on the context from which they sprung. The international media has had a particular infatuation with the Icelanders' elf belief, generally using it to propagate some kind of "kooky Icelanders" myth. Yet Iceland's elf folklore, at its core, reflects the plight of a nation living in abject poverty on the edge of the inhabitable world, and its people's heroic efforts to survive, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. That is what the stories of the elves, or hidden people, are really about. In a country that was, at times, virtually uninhabitable, where poverty was endemic and death and grief a part of daily life, the Icelanders nurtured a belief in a world that existed parallel to their own. This was the world of the hidden people, which more often than not was a projection of the most fervent dreams and desires of the human population. The hidden people lived inside hillocks, cliffs, or boulders, very close to the abodes of the humans. Their homes were furnished with fine, sumptuous objects. Their clothes were luxurious, their adornments beautiful. Their livestock was better and fatter, their sheep yielded more wool than regular sheep, their crops were more bounteous. They even had supernatural powers: they could make themselves visible or invisible at will, and they could see the future. To the Icelanders, stories of elves and hidden people are an integral part of the cultural and psychological fabric of their nation. They are a part of their identity, a reflection of the struggles, hopes, resilience, and endurance of their people. What you will read about in The Little Book of the Hidden People: - The fascination in the international media: why are they so obsessed with elves? - The meaning of elf: what do hidden people stories tell us about the psyche of the Icelanders of old? - The elves' badassery-they could make or break your fortune so you'd better be nice - The lj flingar ... hidden men who became the lovers of mortal women - Glamorous and regal: why were the elves so damn good-looking? - The grim realities: what do scholars believe about all those children abducted by elves? ... and so much more
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