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Akrar (Skagafjörður)
Akrar is a cluster of farms at the base of Akrafjall mountain in the Blönduhlíð district of Skagafjörður, Iceland. There are four farms, located in close proximity, collectively named , and . Akrar includes the Akradalur valley, which goes far into the mountains east of . The Lǫgréttumaðr, lögréttumaður Eggert Jónsson had a residence in Akrar, but his son Jón Eggertsson managed the abbey in Hörgárdalur#Möðruvellir in Hörgárdalur, Möðruvellir. There used to be a Cable ferry, ferry landing on the Héraðsvötn at Akrar, and by 1930, it was the last cable ferry. Akratorfa consists of several farms and is located just outside the deserted farms of and , along with the farm . These farms are named after the farm Stóru-Akrar (or "Akrir" as some in also call it). Akrar, Akratorfan, and Stóru-Akrar are all names typically used to describe the same group of farms, depending on who one asks. Stóru-Akrar ("Big Akrar") is the most well-known of the Akratorfa far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iceland
Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the region's westernmost and most list of countries and dependencies by population density, sparsely populated country. Its Capital city, capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which is home to about 36% of the country's roughly 380,000 residents (excluding nearby towns/suburbs, which are separate municipalities). The official language of the country is Icelandic language, Icelandic. Iceland is on a rift between Plate tectonics, tectonic plates, and its geologic activity includes geysers and frequent Types of volcanic eruptions, volcanic eruptions. The interior consists of a volcanic plateau with sand and lava fields, mountains and glaciers, and many Glacial stream, glacial rivers flow to the sea through the Upland and lowland, lowlands. Iceland i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reykhólar
Reykhólar () is an Icelandic village in the Westfjords, in the northwest area of the country. The village, with around 120 inhabitants, has a swimming pool near the local camp site with a great view on the sea and mountains. The camp site, hostel, and a tourist office are open during the summer. Located south of Reykhólar, on a small island just offshore, is the plant of Norður & Co., a manufacturer of sea salt, evaporated from seawater by means of geothermal energy Geothermal energy is thermal energy extracted from the crust (geology), crust. It combines energy from the formation of the planet and from radioactive decay. Geothermal energy has been exploited as a source of heat and/or electric power for m .... This process was first tried on Breiðafjöður in 1753 and was selected by Søren Rosenkilde when he established Norður in 2012. See also * Bjarkalundur References External links TravelNet - ReykholarEyjasiglingReykhólarSjávarsmiðjan - Seaweed bathHotel B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bóla
Bóla is an abandoned farm in Blönduhlíð in Skagafjörður, Iceland that was a smallholding from Uppsala previously named . It was abandoned for most of the 18th century and up until 1833, when the poet Bólu-Hjálmar, Hjálmar Jónsson lived on the farm, which he first called , but later named Bóla, which it was called from then on. The river flows a short distance from the farm and creates seven waterfalls down a massive gorge, . According to folklore, the troll woman Bóla lived there. Bóla is best known for being the residence of who lived there from 1833–1843, but his residency there ended after he was suspected of theft. Hjálmar’s memorial was erected in Bóla in 1955. The farm has been abandoned since 1976. Notes : This is not a reference to Uppsala in Sweden, but a place in Iceland that, at one time, was called Uppsala. References {{Authority control Skagafjörður Farms in Iceland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bólu-Hjálmar
Hjálmar Jónsson (29 September 1796 – 25 July 1875), better known as Bólu-Hjálmar (after his homestead in ''Bóla''), was a 19th-century Icelandic farmer and poet, known for his sharp style and biting wit and for his mastery of the short Icelandic poetic narrative style known as Rímur. Hjálmar was born in Hallandi in Eyjafjörður. His parents, Marsibil Semingsdóttir and Jón Benediktsson, were poor and unmarried, and he spent the first eight years of his life at the farm of Dálksstaðir, where he was raised by the widow Sigríður Jónsdóttir. He had little formal education, but he soon became an avid reader of the sagas and eddas. Hjálmar married Guðný Ólafsdóttir, and the pair began farming at Bakki in Öxnadalur. In 1829, they moved to Bóla (''Bólstaðargerði'') in Skagafjörður, from whence his nickname ''Bólu-Hjálmar'' was derived. The family had difficulty making ends meet, and Hjálmar was constantly engaged in disputes with his neighbours, who accus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hreppur
A hreppur () is a type of rural municipality in Iceland. These administrative units primarily consist of small rural villages, often with few or no towns, and are overseen by a . The ''hreppur'' is one of Iceland’s oldest administrative units, likely dating back to before 1000 AD, when each ''hreppur'' was required to have at least twenty freeholders. Smaller units could be established with permission from the Lögrétta. The term (from Old Norse ''hreppr'') is referenced in Icelandic legal texts such as the Gray Goose Laws (Grágás) and Law of Iceland (Jónsbók). Unlike the chieftain-þing A thing, also known as a folkmoot, assembly, tribal council, and by other names, was a governing assembly in early Germanic society, made up of the free people of the community presided over by a lawspeaker. Things took place regularly, usu ... structure, the ''hreppur'' operated independently, collecting and distributing tithes and mandatory contributions designated for the poor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akrahreppur
Akrahreppur (, regionally also ), previously called Blönduhlíðarhreppur, is a former municipality, or hreppur, situated in the Northwestern Region of Iceland, and located east of the Héraðsvötn, north of the Kyrfisá, and leading south to Hofsjökull. It is divided into a range of villages, including Ábær. In February 2022, residents of Akrahreppur and the neighboring municipality of Skagafjörður voted to combine the two municipalities. In June 2022 the merger was formalized under the name of Skagafjörður. Agriculture is the main industry in Akrahreppur and the area is sparsely populated. There are four churches in Akrahreppur in Flugumýri, Miklibær, Silfrastaðir, and Ábær in Austurdalur, but the Ábær parish is now completely abandoned. A small amount of geothermal energy is used in some places in Akrahreppur, and a swimming pool was built in Víðivellir in 1938, but it is no longer in use. Now a heating utility system has been built from Varmahlíð, and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Museum Of Iceland
The National Museum of Iceland ( Icelandic: ''Þjóðminjasafn Íslands'' ) was established on 24 February 1863, with Jón Árnason the first curator of the Icelandic collection, previously kept in Danish museums. Collections The second curator, Sigurður Guðmundsson, advocated the creation of an antiquarian collection. The museum was called the ''Antiquarian Collection'' until 1911 when its name changed to the National Museum of Iceland. Before settling at its present location, at Suðurgata 41, 101 Reykjavík Reykjavík is the Capital city, capital and largest city in Iceland. It is located in southwestern Iceland on the southern shore of Faxaflói, the Faxaflói Bay. With a latitude of 64°08′ N, the city is List of northernmost items, the worl ..., in 1950, it was housed in various Reykjavík attics, including in the attic of the Culture House for 40 years. The museum's permanent exhibit is about Icelandic history and includes about 2,000 objects. A key object ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skúli Magnússon
Skúli Magnússon (12 December 1711 – 9 November 1794) was an Icelandic civil servant. He is often referred to as the ''father of Reykjavík.'' due to King Frederik V of Denmark donating the estate of Reykjavík to Magnússon's Innréttingar corporation, which is largely seen as a turning point in the modern development of Iceland. Early life Magnússon was born on 12 December, 1711 in Nord-Þingeyjarsýsla to Magnús Einarsson, a priest in Húsavík Húsavík () is a town in Norðurþing municipality on the northeast coast of Iceland on the shores of Skjálfandi bay with 2,485 inhabitants. The most famous landmark of the town is the wooden church Húsavíkurkirkja, built in 1907. Húsav ..., and Oddný Jónsdóttir. References {{Reflist 1711 births Icelandic independence activists 1794 deaths Politicians from Reykjavík ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sýslumaður
(; plural: ; , , ) is a governmental office or title used in Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Norway. The position originated in Norway in the Middle Ages, where it was used as a noble title, and the was granted a fief called a '' sýsla'' (plural: ) in which he was responsible for collecting tolls, taxes and fines, upholding the law and military defences. He was also to hold courts of justice and name men to sit on juries. He sometimes also assigned fiefs to a ''lensmann''. The system was established in the 12th century by Sverre of Norway to help consolidate his power following the Battle of Fimreite. As Norse influence spread, so did the system, reaching into Iceland and the Faroe Islands, as well as Orkney and Shetland. Today, a or (often translated into English as 'district commissioner', 'sheriff', 'magistrate', or 'governor') handles a variety of governmental responsibilities in Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and the Svalbard archipelago in Norway. Iceland The office ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arngrímur Jónsson
Arngrímur Jónsson the Learned (; 1568 – 27 June 1648) was an Icelandic scholar and a Christian apologist. His father was Jón Jónsson, who died in 1591. Arngrímur studied in Copenhagen, completing his studies in 1589 and taking up a position back in Iceland as rector of the Latin school at the episcopal seat of Hólar in the same year. In 1593 he published '' Brevis commentarius de Islandia'', a "Defense of Iceland" in Latin, in which he criticized the works of numerous authors who had written about the people and the country of Iceland. His main target was a poem by Gories Peerse, a merchant who had written an entertaining and somewhat slanderous poem about Icelandic geography and ethnography. Arngrímur also, however, criticized substantial works such as '' Cosmographia universalis'' of the German scholar Sebastian Münster. The ''Brevis commentarius de Islandia'' was reprinted in 1598 in Richard Hakluyt's '' Principal Navigations of the English Nation''. This defense ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Víðivellir
is a farm in the Blönduhlíð district of Skagafjörður, Iceland, and an old manor house that chieftains often lived in, like some of Skagafjörður county's sýslumaðurs. There was as church in early in the settlement of Iceland, but it was decommissioned in 1765. There was a little geothermal heat in two places in the estate's land. Between 1937 and 1938, a swimming pool was built there. It was used for swim lessons until shortly after 1960, when it was used just for swimming, not for lessons. The abandoned farm is on the land of . On August 21, 1238, the Battle of Örlygsstaðir took place, where nearly 3,000 people fought. A memorial to the battle was unveiled on August 21, 1988, 750 years after the battle was fought. 's last execution took place in in 1789. A woman named Ingibjörg from Fljót who had given birth to a baby the previous summer, was executed for secretly killing and burying the baby. From 1809 to 1842, the dean Péter Pétursson lived there with his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grímur Jónsson
Grímur () is a Faroese and Icelandic masculine given name. Retrieved 9 August 2017. People bearing the name Grímur include: * (fl. 10th-century), responsible for establishing the Icelandic parliament Althing *, member of the Icelandic parliament * (born 1977), Icelandic film director and screenwriter * |