ELVES, FAIRIES, AND HULDFOLK:

 ELVES, FAIRIES, AND HULDFOLK: 

Photo Credit from the Irish Central website: https://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/ireland-fairy-forts

On topic I brought up to our Bran our Viking guide, was the topic of a possible link between the Huldfolk of Iceland and the Leprechaun of Ireland. 

Here is a bit of what was learned. Yes, a high degree of relationship. 

While in Iceland there are Elf Stones where the Huldfolk and Elves live. Disturbing an Elf Stone can be a troublesome matter. This has been recently documented in Iceland with the building of a road where an Elf Stone was in the way. Short story is equipment breakdowns and more problems were encountered and the roads path was altered. 



Here in Ireland we find Fairy Forts. These are identified by mounds in fields usually brush covered and sometimes have a circle of stones. Bad fortune can happen if a Fairy Fort is disturbed. Further other traditions hold that a leprechauns were known to hide their gold in the Fairy Forts.

Back to The Future and the Fairy Fort/Tree : 

“Perhaps the most famous tale about faerie thorns is that of the ruin of the DeLorean car company, whose factory was built over the sacrificed roots of a faerie tree. The tree was one of the most important religious symbols to the #Celts. Virtually all species of trees were deemed magical in some ways, however none was more tightly linked to the faerie world than the #thorn or #hawthorn, whose spiky thorns, white blossoms, and distinctive red haws or berries were said to have been favoured by the Good People. All individual hawthorns shared the faeries’ general beneficence towards their species, but certain thorns marked faerie lands: those that grew in a group of three; those that grew alone in a stony field; and those those that grew together with an oak and ash to make the most magical of all groves.” By Romany Reagan

Yes I Believe, and some day I may tell of the Huldfolk I have seen.