Dramatis personae

Björn agreed to meet me despite the ravages of his ill health. In a retirement home near Búðardalur he recounted his meeting a Hidden Lady when he was a boy.

Marín was probably the only fellow student at the Lístaháskola Íslands art academy who didn’t roll their eyes when hearing about my Elf project.

I met Ragga in an online forum, where she talked about having grown up in close vicinity to an Elf hill. She studies folkloristics at the University of Iceland in Reykjavík.

Siðurður is head of the psychiatric department of Reykjavík’s Landsspitalinn hospital.

Snævar is an old pal of Magnús who now lives in the northern town of Blönduós, after having lived in Norway, Sweden, the US, Thailand and the Philippines. During the many twists and

Erla Stefánsdóttir needs no introduction. She is Iceland’s first and foremost celebrity seeress every foreign camera team turns to when covering the Hidden People phenomenon.

In this section, I introduce some of the major and minor characters in People Not Seen. Today we take a look at Magnús, principal of Reykjavíks notorious Elf School.