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Where it is easy to believe in trolls Amid the grandeur of Iceland's remoter reaches, Rodney Bolt finds a land replete with atmosphere - and a frisson of menace
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The Sunday Telegraph London
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July 13, 2008
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Behind me stood Snaefellsjokull, the glacier-topped volcano that
Jules Verne used as the setting for Journey to the Centre of the
Earth. Beside me was a small, smoke-black church. Down a slight
slope, beside a lagoon that filled and emptied with the tide, the
only other building in view was a white-painted inn. In front of me
stretched the Black Lavafields of Buahraun. And then the sea, flat
and jasper-green. It seemed not to move at all. The air was so still
I could hear the gentle staccato of a cascade hitting rocks some two
miles away. I wouldn't have been surprised had a troll popped out
from behind one of the mossy boulders at my feet.
This was Budir, a remote spot on "a peninsular ...
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