Iceland is very green and Greenland is full of ice

A friend of mine is going to Iceland this summer so I decided to read the book my mom got me when she went to Iceland a few years back: Icelandic Folk and Fairy Tales, which is, as titled, a collection of Icelandic folk and fairy tales. Most of them are very short, some only a few paragraphs long. Most of them are funny. There are many ways in which they remind me of the Irish folk and fairy tale collections I’ve read, although this one has fewer fairies and more trolls and, surprisingly, wizards. This is a short book but ended up taking me almost a week to get through because I couldn’t read for more than about 5 pages at once in the heat, but it was in that case nice to have real short things to read and also to think about cold places like Iceland.