A Mare's Field Guide to Monsters in Iceland

Mary Hawkins (author)

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Title	A Mare's Field Guide to Monsters in Iceland
Contributor	Mary Hawkins (author)
Contributor	Helena Onnudottir(author)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.53288/0361.1.05
Landing page	https://punctumbooks.com/titles/living-with-monsters-ethnographic-fiction-about-real-monsters/
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Copyright	Mary Hawkins, Helena Onnudottir
Publisher	punctum books
Published on	2023-05-11
Long abstract	Horses came to Iceland with the first settlers in the ninth century. Exploring Iceland was a joint venture between horse and human. Isolated from the horse populations of Europe, the Icelandic horse is recognized as a distinct breed, small in stature but powerfully built and possessing a fifth gait. Horses are useful in agriculture and as a primary means of transport, but equally they have been and still are companions and guides to humans, trusted to convey a half asleep, drunk farmer safely home from a barn dance. In the first few springs of a foal’s life, foal and their dams are released from their home paddocks into the mountains, where grasses and herbs grow and horses roam and forage freely. Horses thus learn their land and mountains, and they know where the path is treacherous and where it opens to a lush valley. It is said that if you are on horseback and lost, drop the reins, and let the horse lead because she will know the way. Horses also learn that the mist may hide dangerous creatures and that caution should be taken in the vicinity of elf dwellings and in the places where trolls may camp. Because of this, a horse is a fitting author of this field guide to Icelandic monsters.
Page range	pp. 67–79
Print length	13 pages
Language	English (Original)
Keywords	Iceland Icelandic horses troll elf hidden people

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Mary Hawkins

(author)

Western Sydney University

Mary Hawkins is a Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University. Mary received her PhD in social anthropology from the University of Sydney and has conducted field research in Indonesia and Iceland. Her recent Iceland focused publications include Helena Onnudottir and Mary Hawkins, “Margt byr i Thokunni – What Dwells in the Mist?” in Monster Anthropology: Ethnographic Interpretations of Transforming Social Worlds Through Monsters (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2020); and Mary Hawkins and Helena Onnudottir, “From Resurrection and New Dawn to the Pirate Party: Political Party Names as Symbolizing Recent Transformations in the Political Field in Iceland.”

Helena Onnudottir

(author)

Western Sydney University

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0708-4900

Helena Onnudottir is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University. Helena received her PhD in social anthropology from Macquarie University and has conducted field research in Aboriginal Australia and Iceland. Her recent Iceland focused publications include Helena Onnudottir and Mary Hawkins, “Margt byr i Thokunni – What Dwells in the Mist?” In Monster Anthropology: Ethnographic Interpretations of Transforming Social Worlds Through Monsters (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2020); Hawkins, Mary and Helena Onnudottir, “From Resurrection and New Dawn to the Pirate Party: Political Party Names as Symbolizing Recent Transformations in the Political Field in Iceland” (Politics, Religion and Ideology, 2018).