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Blönduhlíð
Blönduhlíð is a district in Iceland in eastern Skagafjörður that lies along the Héraðsvötn river. It spans the area from the Bóluá river in the south of and the Kyrfisá river to the north. Brekknapláss is the outermost part of in , from the to the Kyrfisá river. There are a few farms there, such as , the birthplace of the priest Jón Steingrímsson—known as the "fire-and-brimstone" preacher—which is in the southernmost part of . , a little further south, is where prime minister Hermann Jónasson was from and where there is a monument in his honor. Hermann was the father of Steingrímur Hermansson, who also served as Iceland's prime minister. Places in Blönduhlíð The following farms are located in : * Akrar (Skagafjörður) * Bóla * Djúpidalur * Flugumýri Flugumýri is a town and church site in the Blönduhlíð district of Skagafjörður, Iceland, at the base of Glóðafeykir mountain. It was, and is, a manorial estate. The town was the hom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
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] |
Djúpidalur
is a farm in the Blönduhlíð district of Skagafjörður, Iceland located in the mouth of Dalsdalur valley, which runs eastward and is located south of Glóðafeykir mountain. The valley branches around Tungufjall mountain (one of three mountains to share that name in the mountains) and the branches run deep into the mountain range. Djúpadalsá, also called , flows through the valley and is in a deep, rather large gorge at the outer end of the valley. The river has formed extensive sandbars in the lowlands that have thick patches of vegetation. The Battle of Haugsnes was fought on these sandbars in 1246. There was a church or chapel in for centuries but it was decommissioned early in the 18th century. Mera-Eiríkur Bjarnason, a farmer in starting in 1733, was famous for his horses. He got into a dispute in Stóru-Akrar with sheriff Skúli Magnússon Skúli Magnússon (12 December 1711 – 9 November 1794) was an Icelandic civil servant. He is often referred to as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miklibær
Miklibær is a church site and parsonage in Blönduhlíð in Skagafjörður, Iceland. The oldest source for the church in Miklibær is from the year 1234 in the Sturlunga Saga, which says from that point on, Kolbeinn ungi (“the young”) Arnórsson had the town because he killed Kálfur Guttormsson and his son Guttormur. Miklibær played a considerable role in the Age of the Sturlungs, especially in the Battle of Örlygsstaðir. Sturla Sighvatsson stayed there with part of his squad the night before the battle, and his brothers, Kolbeinn and Þórður, fled to Miklibær and sought sanctuary in the church. Ultimately, they were forced out and captured. Their heads were cut off, as were many others'. The most famous priest to have been at Miklibær is Oddur Gíslason (1740–1786), who became a priest there in 1768. He got a housekeeper named Solveig and she fell in love with him, but it was unrequited. After he married another woman in 1777, Solveig developed a mental illn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flugumýri
Flugumýri is a town and church site in the Blönduhlíð district of Skagafjörður, Iceland, at the base of Glóðafeykir mountain. It was, and is, a manorial estate. The town was the homestead of Þórir dúfunef (the dove-nosed) and, according to the ''Landnámabók'', it was named for the mare , a quality horse that owned. History has, as a rule, been home to a large farm and various chieftains have lived there. During the Age of the Sturlungs, was one of the Ásbirningar family clan's estates, and Kolbeinn ungi ("the young") Arnórsson lived there from 1233 until he died in 1245. His widow gave the land to the Hólar diocese, but Gissur Þorvaldsson bought it from them, settled there in spring 1253, and built a large farm there. He got good use out of it, albeit not for long because on October 22, after the wedding feast for Gissur and Ingibjörg Sturludóttir's son Hallur, Gissur's enemies arrived in and tried to lock him inside the farm and burn it down. This ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frostastaðir
is a farm in the Blönduhlíð district in Skagafjörður, Iceland. It has been a large farm since early in Iceland's history and it was the county magistrate's residence for some time. The estate is mentioned in the ''Sturlunga saga'' and around 1332 it came under the ownership of bishop in Hólar. The fire-and-brimstone preacher Jón Steingrímsson who was born in , the next town over, lived in from 1754–1756. The ''sýslumaður'' and scholar Jón Espólín acquired the land in 1822 and lived there until he died in 1836. His grandson, Jón Espólín Hákonarson, went to Denmark and Sweden where he studied a number of subjects, including agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created .... When he returned home in 1852, he began running the farm in and he took on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Úlfsstaðir
is a farm on the seaward side of the Blönduhlíð district in Skagafjörður, Iceland. It has been conjectured to have been the homestead of the settler Hjálmólfur (also called ) who settled the land there; the land was named after him. is between and . which, according to local lore, is said have been where was buried. He was a pagan and, reportedly, told his heirs to bury him where he was least likely to hear the toll of the church bells. is directly between the Silfrastaðir and Miklibær churches, but by the time the legend came to be, it had probably been forgotten that this was also the location of a church in the Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ... era (one that was quickly decommissioned), so was not ultimately able to escape the tolling ... [...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] |
Héraðsvötn
Héraðsvötn (), whose name is often shortened to Vötn or Vötnin (and was called Jökulsá in previous centuries) is a glacier river in Iceland. It is formed by the confluence of Austari-Jökulsá and Vestari-Jökulsá. The Héraðsvötn is located in Skagafjörður Skagafjörður () is a deep fjord and its valley in northern Iceland. Location Skagafjörður, the fjord, is about 40 km long and 15 km wide, situated between Tröllaskagi to the east and the Skagi, Skagi Peninsula to the west. Ther ..., a municipality in northern Iceland, and it is one of the deadliest waterfalls in the country. Héraðsvötn is formed by the confluence of multiple rivers that come together at the lower part of the town of Tunguháls, where the eastern and western branches of Jökulsá meet. The Norður river, Húseyjarkvísl, and many smaller rivers also flow into it. In the middle of Blönduhlíð, Héraðsvötn splits into two forks that flow to the sea on either side of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silfrastaðir
Silfrastaðir is a farm and church site at the mouth of the Norðurárdalur valley in Skagafjörður, Iceland. The farm's property is vast, spanning from the Bóluá river in Blönduhlíð out to the Kotá river in Norðurárdalur. Most of the land is mountainous, located around Silfrastaðafjall mountain. It is now slated for Forestry, reforestation. Previously, the entire Silfrastaðaafréttur mountain range belonged to the property of Silfrastaðir, but it was sold to the county in 1896 along with the smallholdings Hálfdanartunga and Krókárgerði in Norðurárdalur, which were abandoned and have not been rebuilt. The hreppur, hreppur's corral, called Silfrastaðaréttur, is on a spit of land below the farm. The Icelandic turf house, turf church that was previously in Silfrastaðir, built in 1842, is now part of Árbæjarsafn outdoor museum in Reykjavík. The church that is there now is eight-sided and was built in 1896 (consecrated on July 12). Within Norðurárdalur valle ... [...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] |