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This book is the first study to tackle the relationship between landscape and religion in-depth. Author Matthias Egeler overviews previous theories of the relationship between landscape and religion and then pushes this theorizing further with a rich case study: the supernatural landscape of the Icelandic Westfjords. There, religion and the supernatural--from churches to elf hills--are ubiquitous in the landscape and, as Egeler shows, this example sheds entirely new light on core aspects of the relationship between landscape, religion, and the supernatural.
Matthias Egeler has held scholarships and fellowships in Oxford, Cambridge, Berlin, and Cork, and has been principal investigator of a series of projects at LMU Munich, Germany. His research interests include the history of religions and the Nordic and Celtic literatures of the Middle Ages. He currently directs a research project on landscape-related storytelling and folk belief in the Icelandic Westfjords. In 2022, he was appointed Supernumerary Professor in Munich, and now teaches at Goethe University, Frankfurt on the Main, Germany.
