''The Elves Were Dressed In Strange Karate Suits!''

''THE ELVES WERE DRESSED IN STRANGE KARATE SUITS!''

Rosinkranz, who is employed as a 'psychic' by Iceland's leading construction companies, first saw Elves when he was four. ''I remember them coming out of the rocks,'' he says, ''carrying a little bell. They were dressed in these strange Outfits. I played with them for ages but no one else saw them.''
The Elves that he has seen most recently were dressed in jackets and jeans!
''Clearly,'' says Rosinkranz,''they have evolved.''

They are most highly evolved in Hafnarfjordur   - Iceland's Elf Capital. Something to do with ley lines.And then as the story unfolds, another Boulder was discovered on the Elf Hill so the construction company decided to build around it. So, the two lanes on Elf Hill road became one, in an Elf induced traffic calming scheme. Some neighbours now reckon, however, that what with the council's new lampposts, it's too bright for the Elves. And too noisy.And the people feel that the Elves moved on. With so many boulders out there to choose from, who can blame them?

Supernatural creatures aren't just a problem in Iceland. A road project in Ireland had to be diverted around a Fairy tree. A local storyteller even intimated that the death of an archaeologist and two construction workers on the site were due to a Fairy curse. And in the USA, or New Zealand, when native Americans or Maoris protest at roads being built over ancient burial grounds, governments sit up and take notice. But in Iceland, it is the Main Headline.

By the way Iceland topped the UN Human Development Index of 2008 as the most developed country in the world   -and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation And Development declared, that, per capita, it was the fifth richest Nation in the World. But then, later in September a year later everything went wrong. The financial system collapsed, and the Krona lost half its value in months. Iceland went belly up in bankruptcy.
And Icelanders started to figure out everything all over again, -what being Icelandic actually means.

The truth is that Icelanders truly believe in Elfs. And they even refuse to rule out Trolls and dwarves, too. The Politicians keep quiet about it. Which is surprising. You would imagine they would want to get on with building their roads and shopping centres without someone popping up and saying, ''You can't  -you too near a Elf house.''
And to compliment that, -my own judgement is that it would be suicide for the politicians to claim that Elves don't exist. He wouldn't be re-elected.

Even if they don't believe they keep quiet.
This is Iceland!


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