Sóley

The story of Sóley is about freedom and oppression Set in Iceland in the dark eighteenthcentury it relates the adventures of a young farmer whose horses symbols of his independence are missing In his search for the horses and his freedom he journeys across the uninhabited wastelands of the mountainous interior of the country Here he encounters the legendary figures of folk tradition The elfmaiden Sóley accompanies him on his way across the highlands She is the incarnation of the dreams woven by the farmers of Iceland poverty stricken and oppressed dreams of a better and more humane way of life envisaged as the lot of supernatural beings concealed in the harsh dramatic landscape of Iceland