Þingeyrar (Thingøre in some older texts) is a farm in

Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its ...

's Northwestern Region. It lies adjacent to the sandy

coastal plain A coastal plain is flat, low-lying land adjacent to a sea coast. A fall line commonly marks the border between a coastal plain and a piedmont area. Some of the largest coastal plains are in Alaska and the southeastern United States. The Gulf Co ...

of Þingeyrasandur (or Thingøresand), between the Skagi and Vatnsnes peninsulas and just northeast of lake Hóp. Þingeyrar was formerly the location of the famous convent

Þingeyraklaustur Þingeyraklaustur was a monastery of the Order of Saint Benedict located in Þingeyrar on Iceland from 1133 until 1551. It was the first convent in Iceland and likely the last to be closed by the Icelandic Reformation. History The convent was fou ...

(1133–1551). It is also the site of Iceland's first stone church, Þingeyrakirkja. Icelandic scholar and politician

Björn M. Ólsen Björn Magnússon Ólsen (14 July 1850 – 16 January 1919) was an Icelandic scholar and politician. He was a member of the , the first Rector (academia), rector of the University of Iceland, and a professor of Icelandic language and culture ...

(1850–1919) was born in Þingeyrar. Bjarni Halldórsson (c. 1703–1773), an Icelandic legal figure and theologian, spent most of his life in Þingeyrar. One of the earliest recorded

giant squid The giant squid (''Architeuthis dux'') is a species of deep-ocean dwelling squid in the family (biology), family Architeuthidae. It can grow to a tremendous size, offering an example of deep-sea gigantism, abyssal gigantism: recent estimates ...

(''Architeuthis dux'') specimens was found washed ashore on Þingeyrasandur in 1639.Volsøe, A., J. Knudsen & W. Rees (1962). ''The cephalopod papers of Japetus Steenstrup; a translation into English''. Danish Science Press, Copenhagen. 330 pp.Sweeney, M.J. & C.F.E. Roper (2001)
Records of ''Architeuthis'' Specimens from Published Reports
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. 132 pp.

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