In Iceland, the Yule Lads are stirring. And like so much in this strange — and strangely beautiful — place, they are not what you expect. Yes, the Yule Lads appear at Yuletide, all 13 of them, and yes ...

WATCH: Meet the Elf Whisperer of Iceland. Yes, She Sees Elves. Yes, She’s For Real. Iceland is a land where magic happens. Magical people live there — and I don’t mean those Vikings roaming the ...

Iceland is a land where magic happens. Magical people live there — and I don’t mean those Vikings roaming the streets of Reykjavik. (Although, for all you single ladies out there, yes, they are indeed ...

A small earthen mound is decorated as an “elf house” near Strandakirkja in southern Iceland. An Icelandic group called the Hrauvinir claims that ancient elves of Iceland would be disturbed by the ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — In this land of fire and ice, where the fog-shrouded lava fields offer a spooky landscape in which anything might lurk, stories abound of the “hidden folk,” thousands of elves, ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — In this land of fire and ice, where the fog-shrouded lava fields offer a spooky landscape in which anything might lurk, stories abound of the “hidden folk” — thousands of elves, ...

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REYKJAVIK, Iceland - In this land of fire and ice, where the fog-shrouded lava fields offer a spooky landscape in which anything might lurk, stories abound of the "hidden folk" - thousands of elves, ...

For the full story, click here. Before the pandemic, Here & Now spent a week in Iceland covering environmental issues — and everywhere we went, we heard about elves! Not only does more than half the ...

Ragnhildur Jónsdóttir wants you to know that she’s not crazy. She’s gone to a doctor—two, actually—to make sure. She just wants to save the elves. After all, they’re her friends. “Of course lots of ...

Here's a sentence we didn't expect to read today: "Elf advocates have joined forces with environmentalists to urge the Icelandic Road and Coastal Commission and local authorities to abandon a highway ...

There's a bunch of different ways you can spend a flight layover - get some sleep, get some food, check out the airport bookstore. But journalist Jelisa Castrodale had something a little different in ...