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Huldufólk. Engraving of a man jumping after a female elf into a precipice. Huldufólk[ a] or hidden people are elves in Icelandic and Faroese folklore. [ 1][ 2] They are supernatural beings that live in nature. They look and behave similarly to humans, but live in a parallel world. [ 3] They can make themselves visible at will. [ 4]
The sagas of Icelanders ( Icelandic: Íslendingasögur, modern Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈislɛndiŋkaˌsœːɣʏr̥] ), also known as family sagas, are a subgenre, or text group, of Icelandic sagas. They are prose narratives primarily based on historical events that mostly took place in Iceland in the ninth, tenth, and early eleventh ...
Icelandic literature refers to literature written in Iceland or by Icelandic people. It is best known for the sagas written in medieval times, starting in the 13th century. . As Icelandic and Old Norse are almost the same, and because Icelandic works constitute most of Old Norse literature, Old Norse literature is often wrongly considered a subset of Icelandic literatu
Peridotite ( US: / ˈpɛrɪdoʊˌtaɪt, pəˈrɪdə -/ PERR-ih-doh-tyte, pə-RID-ə-) is a dense, coarse-grained igneous rock consisting mostly of the silicate minerals olivine and pyroxene. Peridotite is ultramafic, as the rock contains less than 45% silica. It is high in magnesium (Mg 2+ ), reflecting the high proportions of magnesium-rich ...
Halldór Kiljan Laxness ( Icelandic: [ˈhaltour ˈcʰɪljan ˈlaksnɛs] ⓘ; born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was an Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. [2] He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and short stories. Writers who influenced Laxness ...
The Landsbanki Íslands introduced 500 krona notes in 1935, followed by 25 and 1000 krona notes in 1957. In 1961, the Seðlabanki Íslands became the central bank of Iceland and started issuing paper money, in denominations of 10, 25, 100, and 500 krona. They were manufactured in England by De la Rue .
Modern poets include Einar Benediktsson, a neo-Romantic poet who was an important figure in Iceland's nationalistic literary revival during the 19th century, [ 13] and 20th-century poets such as Tómas Guðmundsson and Davíð Stefánsson . Halldór Laxness is the only Icelander to have been awarded the Nobel Prize. [ 14]
One foot ( fet) was equal to 0.31385 m and one nautical mile ( sjómíla) was equal to 1,855 m, as they were defined by their metric equivalents. [1] Some other units are given below: [1] [3] 1 line ( lína) = 1⁄144 feet. 1 inch ( þumlungur) = 1⁄12 feet. 1 ell ( alin) = 2 feet. 1 fathom ( faðmur) = 6 feet. 1 mile ( míla á landi or ...