New Mapping The Icelandic Folktales & Sagas


The official population of Republic of Iceland is exclusively to a greater extent than or less a 3rd 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 inward the rocks as well as hillsides of Iceland.

Much of what nosotros know most the huldufólk comes from the Icelandic folk tales which were recorded as well as written downwardly past times 18th as well as 19th century storytellers. These Icelandic folk tales tin instantly last explored inward a novel interactive map. The Sagnagrunnur interactive map allows you lot to explore the locations mentioned inward Icelandic folk legends as well as disclose to a greater extent than most the legends as well as the storytellers associated with those locations.

The map shows all the places mentioned inward the Icelandic folk tales as well as too shows where the storytellers as well as legend collectors lived. The map includes an extensive search engine which allows you lot to search the map for the legends of a item storyteller, legends from a item collection as well as for legends that accept identify inward a item county.


The medieval Icelandic household unit of measurement sagas are prose histories describing the lives of the offset few generations of settlers inward Republic of Iceland inward the belatedly 9th, 10th, as well as 11th centuries. The Icelandic Saga Map allows you lot to read each of the Icelandic Sagas with an interactive map showing the locations of all the places mentioned inward these historic tales.

When you lot lead an private saga from the Icelandic Saga Map homepage you lot are presented with the text of the even with an interactive map. Locations inward the saga are hyperlinked to the map. Therefore every bit you lot read the saga you lot tin lead place-names mentioned inward the text to persuasion its location on the interactive map. Alternatively you lot tin click on the locations tagged on the map to saltation to the parts inward the texts where they are mentioned inward the Sagas.

When reading an private saga you lot tin purpose the Sagas carte (top right) to too overlay the locations mentioned inward whatever of the other Sagas on the interactive map.
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