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Glaumbær
Glaumbær is an Icelandic town and church site in the middle of Langholt, west of Héraðsvötn in Skagafjörður, formerly a part of the rural municipality Seyluhreppur. It is now home to the Skagafjörður Folk Museum. History The Glaumbær settlement has been inhabited since the beginning of Iceland's history. The explorer Þorfinnur Karlsefni and his wife, Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir, lived in Reynistaður before they came from Vinland and bought the land that became Glaumbær. In the 11th century, their son, Snorri Þorfinnsson, who was said to have been born in Vinland, lived there. In the Saga of the Greenlanders, it says that he had the first church built in Glaumbær while his mother Guðríður traveled south. The church at Glaumbær was dedicated to John the Baptist during the Catholic era. The ''Saga'' says that Guðríður became the anchoress of Glaumbær after she returned from her trip to the south. Many well-known leaders lived in Glaumbær during this er ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skagafjörður Folk Museum
The Skagafjörður Folk Museum is an outdoor settlement museum that was established in 1948 when the National Museum of Iceland acquired the rights to use the old town of Glaumbær at Langholt. It is also a center for housing Skagafjörður artifacts. The turf houses in Glaumbær were lived in up until the year 1947 when the National Museum of Iceland acquired the site. The Skagafjörður Folk Museum, founded on May 29, 1948, obtained the rights to use the town and opened an exhibition there on June 15, 1952. The museum's turf houses contain many items; most are tools related to domestic life and techniques used in an earlier era. The complex consists of thirteen turf houses, six with front-facing gables. The site is unique among Icelandic turf farms insofar as very small stones are used in the walls in a way that is rarely found in the municipality of Glaumbær. Two old wooden houses have been moved to the museum site at Glaumbær. is from Ás in Hegranes. It was built bet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir
Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir (born possibly around 980–1019) was an Icelandic explorer, born at Laugarbrekka in Snæfellsnes, Iceland. She appears in the ''Saga of Erik the Red'' and the ''Saga of the Greenlanders'', known collectively as the '' Vinland sagas''. She and her husband Thorfinn Karlsefni led an expedition to Vinland where their son Snorri Thorfinnsson was born, the first known European birth in the Americas (outside of Greenland). In Iceland, Gudrid is known by her byname ''víðförla'' (lit. ''wide-fared'' or ''far-travelled''). Biography As recorded in ''The Saga of Erik the Red'', Gudrid was the daughter of a chieftain by the name of Thorbjorn of Laugarbrekka, who himself was the son of a freed slave named Vífill. As the story goes, a young man by the name of Einar asked for her hand in marriage, but because his father had been a slave, Gudrid's father refused to give her hand in marriage. Gudrid and her father promptly left Iceland and voyaged to Green ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snorri Thorfinnsson
Snorri Thorfinnsson (Old Norse and Icelandic: Snorri Þorfinnsson or Snorri Karlsefnisson; most likely born between 1004 and 1013, and died ''c.'' 1090) was the son of explorers Thorfinn Karlsefni and Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir. He is considered to be the first child of European descent to be born in the Americas, apart from Greenland. He became an important figure in the Christianisation of Iceland. Name ''Snorri'' is an Old Norse name derived from the word '' snerra'', meaning "a fight." ''Þorfinnsson'' is a patronymic, meaning "son of Þorfinnr", (see '' Icelandic naming conventions''). Snorri was named for his great-grandfather, Snorri Þórðarson, or after Snorri Þorbrandsson who was not a kinsman but a participant in Karlsefni's expedition Family There is speculation about the birth date of Snorri Thorfinnsson. Birth years such as 1005, 1009, and 1012 have been postulated, but all sources agree that he was born between 1004 and 1013. According to the Vinland sa ... [...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] |
Saga Of The Greenlanders
''Grœnlendinga saga'' () (spelled ''Grænlendinga saga'' in modern Icelandic and translated into English as the Saga of the Greenlanders) is one of the sagas of Icelanders. Like the ''Saga of Erik the Red'', it is one of the two main sources on the Norse colonization of North America. The saga recounts events that purportedly happened around 1000 and is preserved only in the late 14th century ''Flateyjarbók'' manuscript. The ''Saga of the Greenlanders'' starts with Erik the Red, who leaves Norway and colonizes Greenland. It then relates six expeditions to North America, led respectively by Bjarni Herjolfsson, Leif Erikson, Thorvald Eriksson, Thorstein Eriksson and his wife Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, Thorfinn Karlsefni, and Freydís Eiríksdóttir. Bjarni and his crew discover three lands by chance during their voyage to Greenland, but they never set foot on the lands themselves. Leif learns about Bjarni's encounters and, after buying Bjarni's ship, sails to the lands to expl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorfinn Karlsefni
Thorfinn Karlsefni Thórdarson was an Icelandic explorer. Around the year 1010, he followed Leif Eriksson's route to Vinland in a short-lived attempt to establish a permanent settlement there with his wife Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir and their followers. Nickname The byname ''Karlsefni'' means "makings of a man" according to the preface of Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Pálsson, although the Cleasby-Vigfusson dictionary glosses it as "a thorough man", elaborated elsewhere as a "real man", a "sterling man". History Thorfinn's expeditions are documented in the '' Grœnlendinga saga'' ("Saga of the Greenlanders" henceforth Grl.) and '' Eiríks saga rauða'' ("Saga of Eirik the Red" Henceforth Eir.),Manuscripts of ''Eiríks saga rauða'' are indicated by the sigla: A=Hauksbok, B=AM 557=Skálholtsbók in which together are referred to as "The Vinland Sagas." The two sources differ significantly in their details (see Saga sources below). Greenland In Greenland, Thorfinn met and mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langholt
Langholt is a district in Skagafjörður, Iceland that lies to the west of Héraðsvötn and alongside a broad, low hill that runs from Reykjarhóll along Varmahlíð, in the lee of Reynistaður to the north. The southern part of Langholt used to belong to Seyluhreppur and the northern part to Staðarhreppur, but now both of these rural districts belong to the larger municipality of Skagafjörður county. Route 1 from to Sauðárkrókur runs through Langholt. Langholt is home to quite a few fertile and densely populated farms, all located to the east of the hill. The southern part of the hill is called Seyla (officially Stóra-Seyla), from which Seyluhreppur derived its name. A short distance from there is the farm , where the savant Gísli Konráðsson lived for a long time. The Glaumbær church site, which is now the Skagafjörður Folk Museum The Skagafjörður Folk Museum is an outdoor settlement museum that was established in 1948 when the National Museum of Icelan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miklabæjar-Solveig
Miklabæjar-Sólveig (died 11 April, 1778) () was an Icelandic woman who lived in the late 18th century and the subject of local folklore. Legend Sólveig is said to have committed suicide after an unrequited love affair with Reverend Oddur, a minister, at his manor in Skagafjörður. After the local church refused her dying request to be buried in the churchyard, her ghost supposedly haunted the manor, the minister, his family, and his staff. According to the tale, Sólveig's ghost was responsible for Reverend Oddur's later disappearance. Sólveig’s remains were moved to a cemetery in Glaumbær in 1937. The tale has been compared to gothic romance.''Icelandic legends and fairy tales'' (Reykjavik 1980), p. 284-286. Arni Böðvarsson and Bjarni Vilhjálmsson Popular culture Poet Einar Benediktsson Einar Benediktsson, often referred to as Einar Ben (31 October 1864 – 12 January 1940) was an Icelandic poet and lawyer. Einar Benediktsson's poetry was a significant contribu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gottskálksannáll
(from Old Norse, "Gottskálk's Annal") is a medieval Icelandic manuscript, named for its presumed author, Gottskálk Jónsson, a priest at Glaumbær, Skagafjörður, in the north of Iceland. Unlike other similar annals Annals (, from , "year") are a concise history, historical record in which events are arranged chronology, chronologically, year by year, although the term is also used loosely for any historical record. Scope The nature of the distinction betw ..., it was not written during the period it chronicles, but rather in the second half of the 16th century. Gottskálksannáll. Despite the fact that these annals were written later on, they provide a significant amount of information about events in the 14th century, including details about monastic culture, especially between 1300 and 1394. However, given that these accounts were written after the fact, their contents must be considered cautiously. Some speculate that the entries from between 636 and 1394 come from annals ... [...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] |
Hólar
Hólar (; also Hólar í Hjaltadal ) is a small community in the Skagafjörður district of northern Iceland. Location Hólar is in the valley Hjaltadalur, some from the national capital of Reykjavík. It has a population of around 100. It is the site of the main campus of Hólar University College, a site of historical buildings and archeological excavation, home to the Center for the history of the Icelandic horse, Hólar Cathedral, and the turf house Nýibær. The first printing press in Iceland was introduced to Hólar in 1530. Hólar Agricultural College was founded 1882, and was renamed Holar University College in 2003. History Near the end of the 10th century, King Olaf I of Norway convinced his subjects to accept Christianity, then sent Christian missionaries to Iceland, where they were quickly accepted; around 1000 Icelanders made a peaceful decision that all should convert. Despite this, the '' godar'', Iceland's ruling class, maintained their power. Some built t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Iceland
The recorded history of Iceland began with the settlement by Vikings, Viking explorers and the people they enslaved from Western Europe, particularly in modern-day Norway and the British Isles, in the late ninth century. Iceland was still uninhabited long after the rest of Western Europe had been settled. Recorded settlement has conventionally been dated back to 874, although archaeological evidence indicates Gaelic monks from Ireland, known as papar from Sagas of Icelanders, sagas, may have settled Iceland earlier. The land was settled quickly, mainly by Norsemen who may have been fleeing conflict or seeking new land to farm. By 930, the chieftains had established a form of governance, the ''Althing'', making it one of the world's oldest parliaments. Towards the end of the tenth century, Christianity came to Iceland through the influence of the Norwegian king Olaf Tryggvason. During this time, Iceland remained independent, a period known as the Old Commonwealth, and Icelandic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
