In Iceland, Slowing Down to Appreciate Folklore and Nature’s Silence After three years in a pandemic, I sought out the most comforting place in the world to recalibrate.

Iceland's Folklore: Trolls, Elves, and Sagas But Iceland isn’t just about scenic beauty. Its folklore is equally captivating.

I mean, there are elves and gnomes and everything short of, like, Smurfs. DAVIS: Elves, or as they're sometimes called, the hidden people, form a large part of Iceland's folklore.

The Icelandic folk monster, Jólakötturinn, which translates to Yule Cat, stalks the hillsides of towns looking for children to eat. But only those who aren't wearing their new Christmas clothes.

Mythical elves often called the "hidden people" are a key part of Iceland's folklore. In Iceland, Elf School Is In Session SUSAN DAVIS, HOST: There's a bunch of different ways you can spend a ...

My condolences to the children of Iceland. While many Christmas celebrations around the world are full of tidings of comfort, joy, and rampant consumerism, for young Icelanders it’s a time of ...

Inspired by the dramatic landscape of the Westfjords of Iceland in the 1800s and the region’s folklore, the psychological horror film “The Damned” so excels in creating a memorable ...

No stranger to extreme challenges, Britain's Ross Edgley is battling towering waves and swimming past orcas as he takes on ...

Some folklore explains the return of the sun, Wayne State's Young said: It's way too hot to eat, so the frog or wolf or snake spits it out. But ancient people weren't always content to wait.