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Stóra-Seyla
Stóra-Seyla, or Seyla, is a town and old manor in Langholt in Skagafjörður (municipality), Skagafjörður, Iceland. Previously, it was the location of the Seyluhreppur county assembly, which was named after the town. The town was originally named just Seyla, but after the smallholding Litla-Seyla was developed, likely in the 17th century, it came to be called Stóra-Seyla. The town's namesake of Litla-Seyla was renamed to Brautarholt in 1915 but, since then, the town was typically referred to as only Seyla, although it is officially Stóra-Seyla. The name Seyla is thought to refer to a bog. The town has an extensive amount of land in Langholt, between Húseyjarkvísl to the east and Sæmundará to the west. Seyla was part of the dowry that the bishop Gottskálk grimmi Nikulásson, Gottskálk Nikulásson paid for his daughter Kristín when she married lawyer Þorvarður Erlendsson in 1508. Þorbergur Hrólfsson (1573 to September 8, 1656) likely acquired the estate early in the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seyluhreppur
Seyluhreppur is an old Icelandic ''hreppur'', or rural municipality, that is today part of the municipality of Skagafjörður. It is located to the west of the Héraðsvötn river in Skagafjörður county and is named after the town of Stóra-Seyla in Langholt, which was where county assemblies were held. Seyluhreppur consisted of four districts: Langholt, Vallhólmur, Víðimýrarhverfi, and Skörð, aside from Fjall, Geldingaholt, and Húsabakkabæirnir, which were not considered to belong to any of the four districts. Seyluhreppur is wide, but only six towns in the had land bordering the mountain. The municipality was located completely in the parish of Glaumbær where there were two churches, one in the town of Glaumbær and one in Víðimýri. In centuries past, there was also a church in Geldingaholt. Agriculture was, for a long time, the inhabitants’ primary occupation, but shortly before 1950, a small urban area developed in Varmahlíð, most of whose residents wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |