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NorsePlay Investigates: The Stone Of The Hidden Man!

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During a far too short stop of my recent cross-Atlantic trip in Reykjavik, I went to investigate the Map Of Midgard site of The Stone Of The Hidden Man! Tucked behind a strip of shops at 32 Ármúli Street is an elf stone, the Huldumannssteinn (literally "Hidden Man Stone"). This stone was originally bigger and partly demolished, but this large portion was left. The then-owner was visited in a dream by its resident alfar, who asked him to leave his remaining home alone or else bad luck & misfortune would come of it, so he did. [Looking through the split.] According to Terry Gunnell's The Hidden People of Iceland (2008 CE), some bakers later bought this property to open a chicken farm whose chickens wouldn't lay once they bore holes into the remaining stone for demolition. When they figured out this cause, they spared the rock and the chickens resumed laying eggs again the next day. My cabbie, a Reykjavik Icelander for over 30 years, said he had no idea that this ...