The official population of Republic of Iceland is entirely or then a tertiary of a million. However official population figures tend non to include the huldufólk, or the hidden people. The huldufólk are a race of elves that alive inwards the rocks in addition to hillsides of Iceland.
Much of what nosotros know close the huldufólk comes from the Icelandic folk tales which were recorded in addition to written downwardly yesteryear 18th in addition to 19th century storytellers. These Icelandic folk tales tin at 1 time live on explored inwards a novel interactive map. The Sagnagrunnur interactive map allows you lot to explore the locations mentioned inwards Icelandic folk legends in addition to honour to a greater extent than close the legends in addition to the storytellers associated with those locations.
The map shows all the places mentioned inwards the Icelandic folk tales in addition to every bit good shows where the storytellers in addition to legend collectors lived. The map includes an extensive search engine which allows you lot to search the map for the legends of a detail storyteller, legends from a detail collection in addition to for legends that guide keep identify inwards a detail county.
The medieval Icelandic household unit of measurement sagas are prose histories describing the lives of the start few generations of settlers inwards Republic of Iceland inwards the belatedly 9th, 10th, in addition to 11th centuries. The Icelandic Saga Map allows you lot to read each of the Icelandic Sagas amongst an interactive map showing the locations of all the places mentioned inwards these historic tales.
When you lot choose an private saga from the Icelandic Saga Map homepage you lot are presented with the text of the floor amongst an interactive map. Locations inwards the saga are hyperlinked to the map. Therefore every bit you lot read the saga you lot tin choose place-names mentioned inwards the text to persuasion its location on the interactive map. Alternatively you lot tin click on the locations tagged on the map to trammel to the parts inwards the texts where they are mentioned inwards the Sagas.
When reading an private saga you lot tin role the Sagas carte (top right) to every bit good overlay the locations mentioned inwards whatever of the other Sagas on the interactive map.
