article_snippet: Elf advocates feared the building of the direct route from the tip of the Alftanes peninsula to Gardabaer would disturb elf habitat, and claimed the area contains an elf church.
article_snippet: Rocky road: Elf advocates feared the building of the direct route from the tip of the Alftanes peninsula to Gardabaer the Alftanes peninsula to Gardabaer Gardabaer would disturb elf habitat and claimed the area contains an elf church .
article_snippet: the highway project was stopped until the country’s supreme court ruled on a case brought by the Friends of Lava group, who cited both the highway project environmental and cultural impact - including the bearing on elves.
article_snippet: The road states in part that 'issues have been settled by delaying the construction project at a certain point while the elves living there have supposedly moved on'.
article_snippet: Andri Snaer Magnason, a well-known environmentalist, said Andri Snaer Magnason, a well-known environmentalist major concern was that The road would cut the lava field in two, among other things, destroying nesting sites.
highlights_snippet: Issue hit headlines in 2013 when campaigners urged project to be halted .
  
highlights_snippet: Elf advocates feared building of direct route would disturb the elf habitat .
  