Icelandic folklore holds that huldufólk — literally "hidden people" — live inside rocks, cliffs, and waterfalls across the country, invisible but present, watching over the landscape they inhabit.
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Name:
"Fairy Tale"
Ref. Number:
0470 (Limited Edition - 55 copies)
Location:
Kirkjufell, Iceland
Artist`s Tale:
The Waterfall Iceland`s Hidden People Are Said To Call Home
Icelandic folklore holds that huldufólk — literally "hidden people" — live inside rocks, cliffs, and waterfalls across the country, invisible but present, watching over the landscape they inhabit. It`s not a belief confined to old stories: a 2023 University of Iceland survey found that 54 percent of respondents considered the existence of the huldufólk at least possible, with only about 27 percent ruling it out entirely — numbers that have stayed remarkably stable since similar surveys began in 1974. Roads in Iceland have genuinely been rerouted around boulders believed to be elf dwellings, and certain sites, waterfalls among them, are approached with a kind of quiet respect even by people who wouldn`t call themselves believers. Kirkjufellsfoss, the waterfall in this photograph, sits beneath Kirkjufell mountain on the Snæfellsnes Peninsula — a location already carrying enough mythic weight to have been used as the "Arrowhead Mountain" backdrop in HBO`s Game of Thrones. "Fairy Tale" leans into the older, homegrown version of that mythology instead, framing the falls the way local folklore has long described them: not just moving water, but a place where the hidden and visible worlds are said to sit closest together. Whether or not anyone actually believes hidden people live in the spray behind Kirkjufellsfoss, the waterfall itself needs no folklore to justify the name — this piece joins "Call" and "The Shine Of Elmo" as the third piece in this collection built around the same mountain and falls, each pulling from a different part of what makes the location so enduringly photographed.Awards:
Bronze Award In The One Eyeland Photography Awards 2020.
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