Travel Guide Húsavík

Húsavík, a town of about ten buildings with a ruin in the center called Heimi á Garði, which is said to be the remains of a farm built by the rich "Lady of Húsavík". A legend tells the story of a poor servant girl from the island of Skúvoy who mysteriously discovered the golden horn buried by the former Viking chieftain Sigmundur Brestisson. The young woman, who until then had lived in misery, dressed in rags and sleeping under the millstone, becomes rich. Indeed, we see the remains of an old medieval manor and an old house, built in 1878, Jógvansbreyt, in which people lived until recently.