REYKJAVIK, Iceland — In this land of fire and ice, where the fog-shrouded lava fields offer a spooky landscape in which anything might lurk, stories abound of the “hidden folk” — thousands of elves, dwelling in Iceland’s wilderness.
So perhaps it was only a matter of time before 21st-century elves got political representation.
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