Rípurhreuppur was a

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, ...

, an old Icelandic municipality, in the middle of Skagafjörður County,

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 regi ...

, named after the

Ríp Ríp (which sometimes used to be called Rípur) is a farm and church site in the southeast of Hegranes in Skagafjörður, Iceland. is an old word that can be translated to “cliff” or “ridge of a hill.” Ribe in Jutland, Denmark has an anal ...

church site in

Hegranes Hegranes is the name of the peninsula between the branches of the Héraðsvötn river in Skagafjörður, Iceland. Although Hegranes is called a peninsula (its name is derived from "heron" and "peninsula"), it is actually an island about 15 kilom ...

. On June 6, 1998, Rípurhreppur joined ten other local governments to form Skagafjörður county: Skefilsstaðahreppur,

Sauðárkrókur Sauðárkrókur () is a Localities of Iceland, town on the Skagafjörður in northern Iceland. It is the seat of both the Skagafjörður (municipality), Sveitarfélagið Skagafjörður ('Municipality of Skagafjörður') and the Northwestern Re ...

, Skarðshreppur, Staðarhreppur, Seyluhreppur, Lýtingsstaðahreppur, Viðvíkurhreppur, Hólahreppur, Hofshreppur, and Fljótahreppur.

Hreppur Council

The last Rípurhreppur council was elected in the committee election on May 28, 1994, in which Lilja Ólafsdóttir, Pálmar Jóhannesson, Símon Traustason, Sævar Einarsson, and Þórunn Jónsdóttir were voted into office.

Council chairs

*1874–1883 Ólafur Sigurðsson in Ás *1883–1888 Gunnar Ólafsson in

Keldudalur Keldudalur is a town on the southwest end of the Hegranes peninsula in Skagafjörður, Iceland. In recent years, significant archaeological excavations have taken place there. History In the middle of the 19th century, Jón Samsonarson, the f ...

*1888–1896 Ólafur Sigurðsson in Ás *1896–1901 Jónas Halldórsson in

*1901–1908 Sigurjón Markússon in Eyhildarholt *1908–1936 Guðmundur Ólafsson in Ás *1936–1958 Gísli Magnússon in Eyhildarholt *1958–1962 Páll Sigurðsson in Keldudalur *1962–1974 Árni Gíslason in Eyhildarholt *1974–1986 Þórarinn Jónasson in Hróarsdalur *1986–1994 Árni Gíslason in Eyhildarholt *1994–1998 Símon Traustason in

Keta Keta is a coastal town and the capital of the Keta Municipal District in the Volta Region of Ghana. Keta was an important trading post between the 14th and the late 20th centuries. The town attracted the interest of the Danish, because they fe ...

References

{{Authority control Populated places in Northwestern Region (Iceland) Skagafjörður