When the Kárahnjúkar dam was being built the Ásatrú would visit the construction site and curse it, so Landsvirkjun (Iceland's power company) would send priests

When the Kárahnjúkar dam was being built the Ásatrú would visit the construction site and curse it, so Landsvirkjun (Iceland's power company) would send priests down to sprinkle holy water over it, to which the Ásatrú responded by cursing it, and the priests again sent in... this went on round and round. The Ásatrú were broadly against the project. Arguably this had some effect. When a prominent anti-dam farmer from near Egilsstaðir was excavating his land to build an extension to his house, strange things kept on happening: His cows treading on their udders, workers falling into the pit and breaking bones. His wife claimed to see two figures when each time one of these happenings occured. An old man and a young. Finally in the pit they came across the central beam of an ancient house, and a magnificent circle made of a spherical stone made of spheres containing crystals - you found individual spheres - I know this is the wrong term sorry - scattered around their farmland. Anyway upon finding these the farmer called to the ghosts and promised that the stone would be taken to the museum in Egilsstaðir and the beam would be featured prominantly in their new farmhouse, in exchange for the ghosts leaving them in peace and haunting Kárahnjúkar instead. It was then in the process of its initial flood. Soon after very strange things occured at Kárahnjúkar. Workers were injured, serious technical problems manifested. If there's anywhere in the world where making pacts with supernatural forces is possible, it's Iceland.