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19.04.2017

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... between heaven and hell ...

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Today we met Bjarni Hardarsoniga, who is a writer and well-known Icelandic folklore collector.

Icelandic folklore culture of permanent artistic value. Illiterately people never replace it as literature than science. Today is an important literature monument folklore youth of the time. Folklore nurtured in modern literature, and presents as the historical monuments of distant times, including that time in which other sources are not available or are extremely limited.

We drove out of town today, a large rural area and secure off-road car. We were taken to beautiful nature sites and legends related to the Icelanders in the wild.

Our mileage when driving today could be quite long. Driving out of the window and got to see a variety of farm buildings located on alone. It is known that the arable land in Iceland is only 1% of the total surface area. Therefore, people who work in the agricultural sector, are doing an admirable job as a low fertility country. This heat energy coming out of the ground for widely spoken here skilfully exploited. It got to see for myself tomatoes growing company "Fridheima" which also offered great dining.

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Today was very diverse. I really enjoyed in the beautiful nature. The weather was silly today; it has changed from clearly sunny to snowy storm in five minutes. Maybe elf had to do something with it since we were standing above their curch.

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The third day.  At the geysir I felt the power of the nature and the weakness of the humans . We have to step behind to the power of the nature. Also the weather showed us how powerless we are indeed.

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Nature - man - folklore
It was interesting to find out that Icelandic folklore does not include any myths or legends connected to natural features - volcanoes, waterfalls, northen lights, hot springs or geysirs. Instead there are a lot of stories about hidden people, elves and trolls - human-like beings that can count as neighbours. Looking at the vast spaces between the farms and learning the way the farms were run by small families explain the need for company. And probably that need created the stories about elves, fidden people and trolls.

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The third day of our course. We all felt already eager  to leave the city and head to the countyside. I was surprised how similar our historical context with Islanders and the Finns have been. Our guide Bjarne had a little different perspective to Folklore than Magnus did. It was more sociological connection that he  pointed (e.g. infuences of the catholic and lutheran faith, church and represson of the village people, mens and womens different roles role before and nowadays). The arrival of lutheran religon made to this society more serious impact according to him.

Somehow the most important thing for me today was individuals need to be noticed and respected. Pealing a person or better to say getting to know better the person, not only the single story, you will find multiple aspects in him or her. That is what is to be human - we all want to be seen as a whole person and not just as a narrow minded reflection of some others interpretation. We should learn to interprete people according to their own perspective and surroundings. That is why we need to be really interested and focused to succeed in our everyday life encounters
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My mind is full of ideas about stories and experiences that we had. I am still confused with all these impressions and I can not find yet the the principal message of today. I can say that I have learned lot of things and I am very grateful with the stories of our local guide.