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Cities on the Edge, Cities of Enchantment: Invisible Cities in the Far North

Miscellanea Geographica
Volume 28 (2024): Issue 4 (October 2024)
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|Sep 2024

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Figure 1.

The former farm of Brúará in the Strandir district of Iceland. Today, only two summer houses remain at Brúará. The tongue of rock to the left of the houses, almost exactly in the centre of the photograph, is Höfði, that is, the ‘Headland’, which is a central location for storytelling on the farm
The former farm of Brúará in the Strandir district of Iceland. Today, only two summer houses remain at Brúará. The tongue of rock to the left of the houses, almost exactly in the centre of the photograph, is Höfði, that is, the ‘Headland’, which is a central location for storytelling on the farm

Figure 2.

Stapi, the ‘Rock Tower’, the second elf dwelling of Brúará
Stapi, the ‘Rock Tower’, the second elf dwelling of Brúará

Figure 3.

The forbidden grassy slope at the foot of Höfði between the lawn and the cliff face
The forbidden grassy slope at the foot of Höfði between the lawn and the cliff face
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2023-0035 | Journal eISSN: 2084-6118 | Journal ISSN: 0867-6046
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Language: English
Page range: 169 - 175
Submitted on: Apr 12, 2024
Accepted on: May 16, 2024
Published on: Sep 6, 2024
Published by: University of Warsaw
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 times per year
Keywords:
Italo Calvino,
Iceland,
Westfjords,
landscape,
folklore,
elves
Related subjects:
Geosciences,
Geography,
Geosciences, other

© 2024 Matthias Egeler, Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir, published by University of Warsaw
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