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is a mountain pass between Húnavatnssýlsa and
There is a monument to the poet Stephan G. Stephansson, who grew up in the area where the monument is now, on Arnarstapi hill on the eastern side of the pass. There are very good views over the region from the top of Arnastapi, and there is a panoramic point just a short way from the monument.
is also the location of one of the Icelandic Meteorological Office's weather stations.
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 ...
Counties in Iceland. Route 1
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uses it. There is a lake in the pass named , and the county border is just east of it. A stream (called or ) runs into the lake and it is on the county border.
Geography
Grísafell is north of the pass and Valadalshnúkur peak is to the south. The river originates from lake and Valadalur valley, then runs eastward. The river falls in Gýgjarfoss waterfall east of the pass. When the river reachesSæmundarhlíð
("Sæmundur's slope") is a district on the western side of Skagafjörður, Iceland and is located between mountain slopes off the south of Vatnsskarð near the base of Reynistaður. The eastern border runs along Sæmundará river, which flows ...
, its name changes to Sæmundará
The Sæmundará river is a spring creek on the western side of Skagafjörður, Iceland. It originates in Vatnsskarð pass, in lake and Valadalur dalur, curving to the north as it descends from the mountain pass, and running along the full length ...
river. There are only a few farms in and the surrounding area used to be referred to as or "in the pass".
The following farms were, or are still in
* (in county)
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* (abandoned)
* (abandoned)
History
According to local legend, one time when thecensus
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
was being taken, a vagabond named Magnús sálarháski ("distress of the soul")—about whom there are many stories—laid down right across the stream and stayed there all through the day of the census so it was not possible to count him in either Húnavatn or counties.
There is a monument to the poet Stephan G. Stephansson, who grew up in the area where the monument is now, on Arnarstapi hill on the eastern side of the pass. There are very good views over the region from the top of Arnastapi, and there is a panoramic point just a short way from the monument.
is also the location of one of the Icelandic Meteorological Office's weather stations.
References
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