Elves/Huldufolk (hidden people): live in enchanted rocks and cliffs and lead lives similar to humans, prefer to be left alone and usually remain invisible; denying existence brings a lifetime of bad luck; possess great powers and punish people who harm nature Trolls: become enraged when harmed but reward others when helped; also have powers, but relatively unintelligent; live in rocky mountains in uninhabitable highlands; lure unsuspecting humans into caves and eat them; only travel by nigh and turn to stone when hit by sunlight; many rock formations said to be the petrified remnants of trolls Ghosts: include people who return from death on their own, zombies who are awakened with magical spells, and "followers" that haunt a particular person or specific families; lost souls that cannot find their way to the realms of the afterlife; trapped on earth due to intensive mourning of loved ones, unfinished business on earth, or attachment to erathly belongings (most cases) Land Wights/Icelandic Guardians/Landvaettir: dragon/Dreki in the east, griffin/Gammur in the north, bull/Grioungur in the west, mountain giant/Bergrisi in the south; Icelandic coat of arms Nykur: beautiful grey horse with backward hooves; runs into the nearest body of water and drowns its rider Lagarfljot Worm: serpent that lives in Lagarfljoy, a freshwater, below sea level, glacial fed lake with poor visibility due to siltation in eastern Iceland Skoffin: male fox + female cat or rooster egg; deadly gaze Taumur/Bridle Fish: evil black whale with white or pink stripes from eyes to mouth; destroy boats at sea, speaking name at sea attracts it Regular Animals: Arctic fox (west), reindeer (east), whales, orcas, seals, dolphins, porpoises, puffins, oystercatchers, golden plovers, Arctic terns, gyrfalcons (national animal), Icelandic horse, Icelandic sheep, Icelandic sheepdog