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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This 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…

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 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