Gaelic influence hides in plain sight everywhere in #Iceland: placenames, beehive huts, folklore, encoded in the sagas and above all in Icelanders' DNA. Key to the mystery is a system of over 200 caves in the SW. @BaldurThorhalls let me visit the thrilling cavesofhella.is
Above ground @BaldurThorhalls explains the mystery of #Iceland's Celtic past - the story of an ancient migration - against the backdrop of Ægissíða's rolling green hills. Ægissíða sounds an awful lot like Aes Sídhe (Irish for the fairies or the hidden people)....