This Is Above My Paygrade

Pink and purple poster of an Icelandic elf confronting a construction worker over a building permit, fairystone house and mossy landscape behind her.

In Iceland, construction must stop for the huldufólk. Projects have been halted, rerouted, and delayed, and on several occasions, mediums have been brought in to negotiate building permissions directly with the elves. Even mythological creatures have to deal with bureaucracy in Iceland.

IIlustration

2026

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