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Jósepsdalur
Jósepsdalur (), also Josefsdalur , is a small valley, about 2 km long in southwestern direction, and to the east of the volcano Vífilsfell up on Hellisheiði at a distance of about 25 km from Reykjavík within Selvogshreppur municipality.Ari Trausti Guðmundsson, Pétur Þorleifsson: Íslensk Fjöll. Gönguleiðir á 151 tind. Reykjavík 2004, p. 300 The Bláfjöll mountains surround the U-shaped valley.Þór Vigfússon: Í Árnesþingi vestanverðu. Ferðafélag Íslands Árbók 2003. Reykjavík 2003, p. 83 The valley is situated next to an old trail over the pass ''Ölfusskarð'' from Ölfus, the region in the south of Iceland around Hveragerði, to Reykjavík.Íslandshandbókin. Náttúra, saga og sérkenni. Reykjavík 1989, v.2, p.806 Folk tales Acc. to an old folk tale, a troll woman shall have lived in a cave in Jósepsdalur. Another folk tale explains the name of the valley: A man named Jósep lived in this valley once. He had a bad reputation for swearing and blasphemy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vífilsfell
Vífilsfell () is a hyaloclastite ridge in southwestern Iceland (Weichselian). It is 655 m high and located west of Jósepsdalur valley on the volcanic plateau of Hellisheiði. It forms the northernmost offset of the Bláfjöll mountain massif and is situated on top of the fissure volcanism, fissure system of Brennisteinsfjöll. Name The name comes from one of the freed slaves of Iceland's first settler Ingólfur Arnarson. The man, called ''Vífill'', is said to have had his own farm at Vífilsstaðir, now in the vicinity of the city of Hafnarfjörður. From there – according to the Landnámabók – he went daily up to the top of Vífilsfell, some 20 km away, to look after the weather.Ari Trausti Guðmundsson, Pétur Þorleifsson: Íslensk Fjöll. Gönguleiðir á 151 tind. Reykjavík 2004, p.300Snæbjörn Guðmundsson, Vegvísir um Jardfræði Íslands. Reykjavík 2015, p.50 When the weather seemed promising, he went fishing from the tip of the Seltjarnarnes peninsula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
