2024
HÖFÐI HOUSE
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White prefabricated house in Norway in 1909, built to accommodate the first ...Read more
Reykjavík
2024
BERGÞÓRSHVOLL FARM
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A farmhouse located near Route 1, with the remains of the foundations, ...Read more
Hvolsvöllur
2024
HLIÐARENDI
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A place with grassy lands, on the northern flank of the Fljotsdalur, a wide ...Read more
Hvolsvöllur
2024
HOUSE OF NONNI (NONNAHÚS)
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One of the oldest houses in Akureyri, the birthplace of the Jesuit pastor ...Read more
Akureyri
2024
ÁSMUNDUR SVEINSSON SCULPTURE MUSEUM
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Curious building built by the artist Asmundur Sveinsson, housing his ...Read more
Reykjavík
2024
HÖSKULDSSTAÐIR FARM
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Read moreThis area (now located near Highway 59) belonged to Höskuldur Dalakollsson and his wife Jórunn, whose progeny appears prominently in many sagas. Their daughter is only Hallgerður to the Long Legs, wife of Gunnar de Hlídarendi in the Saga of Njáll le Brûlé. The Saga of the Val-au-Salmon staged Bolli Þorleiksson, the son of Þorleikur, the legitimate son of Höskuldur. But Höskuldur also has an illegitimate son, Ólafur le Paon, with an Irish slave who, herself, is the illegitimate daughter of an Irish king…
Búðardalur
2024
HOUSE OF GUNNAR GUNARSSON (GUNNARSSTOFNUN)
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Former house of Gunnar Gunarsson, to better know his life and his work, ...Read more
Egilsstaðir
2024
ILLUGASTAÐIR
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One of the best places to see seals with binoculars, and the site of ...Read more
Vatnsnes