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Sæmundarhlíð
("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 between the long side of the slope and then curves to the east a short distance from . During the settlement of Iceland, it seemed that referred to area that extended farther to the north, all the way to Gönguskarðsá river. The area is named after the settler Sæmundur suðureyski ("the Herbidean"). There are some farms in . The southernmost is Fjall, which is sometimes considered to be part of the farms, and is located on the road to Fjall out from Route 1 in pass, and not from . To the north there is the abandoned farm where, in the 17th century, the annal writer and scholar Björn Jónsson lived. Among other works, Björn wrote the ( ''annal''). The region’s outermost farm is where the swing music Swing music is a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vatnsskarð
is a mountain pass between Austur-Húnavatnssýsla, Húnavatnssýlsa and Skagafjörður (municipality), Skagafjörður Counties in Iceland. Route 1 (Iceland), Route 1 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 reaches Sæmundarhlíð, its name changes to Sæmundará 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) * * * (abandoned) * (abandoned) History According to local legend, one time when the census was being taken, a vagabond named Magnús sálarháski ("distress of the soul")—about whom there are many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 of Sæmundarhlíð (Sæmundur slope). At the end of Langholt, it turns east and runs along the hay field in Reynistaður, then curves northward again before finally ending in Miklavatn. After the bend in the river, it is generally called the river, named after Reynistaður. The ''Landnámabók'' refers to it as . The river is excellent for fishing, and people fish there for both salmon Salmon (; : salmon) are any of several list of commercially important fish species, commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera ''Salmo'' and ''Oncorhynchus'' of the family (biology), family Salmonidae, native ... and char. The river's water level is usually rather low. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Sæmundará ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. There are two municipalities in the area, Skagafjörður Municipality (approx. 4140 inhabitants) and Akrahreppur, Akrahreppur Municipality (approx. 210 inhabitants). This is one of Iceland's most prosperous agricultural regions, with widespread dairy and sheep farming in addition to the horse breeding for which the district is famed. Skagafjörður is the only county in Iceland where horses outnumber people. It is a centre for agriculture, and some fisheries are also based in the settlements of Sauðárkrókur and Hofsós. The people living in Skagafjörður have a reputation for choir singing, horsemanship, and gatherings. There are three islands in the bay: Málmey, Drangey and Lundey, Skagafjörður, Lundey (Puffin Island). The bay is l ... [...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] |
Reynistaður
Reynistaður, previously (“Site in Reynisnes”), is a town in Skagafjörður—a fjord in the north of Iceland. Reynistaður is the location of an old manor. Þorfinnur karlsefni (“the makings of a man”) was from Reynistaður and lived there for some time with his wife, Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir after they returned from Vinland. During the Age of the Sturlungs, it was one of the residences of the Ásbirningar family clan. Kolbeinn kaldaljós (“cold light”) Arnórsson, also called Staðar-Kolbeinn, lived there as did his son Brandur Kolbeinsson later on. Gissur Þorvaldsson later acquired Reynistaður, which was said to have become the jarl's residence because Gissur had received the title of ''jarl''. Gissur donated Reynistaður for the establishment of a convent. He died in 1268, but the Reynistaður Abbey was not established until 1295; it operated until the Reformation. Although the abbey was eventually closed down, the nuns received permission to live out the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Settlement Of Iceland
The settlement of Iceland ( ) is generally believed to have begun in the second half of the ninth century, when Norsemen, Norse settlers migrated across the North Atlantic. The reasons for the migration are uncertain: later in the Middle Ages Icelanders themselves tended to cite civil strife brought about by the ambitions of the Norway, Norwegian king Harald I of Norway, but modern historians focus on deeper factors, such as a shortage of arable land in Scandinavia. Unlike Great Britain and Ireland, Iceland was unsettled land and could be claimed without conflict with existing inhabitants. On the basis of by Ari Þorgilsson, and , histories dating from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and providing a wealth of detail about the settlement, the years 870 and 874 have traditionally been considered the first years of settlement. However, these sources are largely unreliable in the details they provide about the settlement, and recent research focuses more heavily on archaeological ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gönguskarðsá
Gönguskarðsá river is a spring creek in Skagafjörður, Iceland that flows to the ocean in the Gönguskörð estuary in Sauðárkrókur (a little inlet on the shore directly north of the town) off of the north part of Sauðárkrókur. It is sometimes said to be the deadliest river in Skagafjörður County. Gönguskarðsá originates from Gönguskörð and is a direct runoff stream that collects water from many smaller rivers that fall down from Tindastóll and Molduxi mountains, and the mountains in between. It is swift and difficult to cross in flood conditions, and has been very deadly; nearly 20 people have drowned there. One of them was Guðmundur, father of the singer Stefán Íslandi, who drowned in the spring of 1917. The river was first bridged in 1875. The ''Landnámabók'' mentions that some settlers landed in the Gönguskörð estuary, where no one has landed in centuries. The river now has a bridge by the estuary and there was an older bridge a little farth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Route 1 (Iceland)
Route 1 or the Ring Road ( or ) is a National road (Iceland), national road in Iceland that circles the entire country. As a major Trunk road, trunk route, it is considered to be the most important piece of transport infrastructure in Iceland as it connects the majority of towns together in the most densely populated areas of the country. Economically, it carries a large proportion of goods traffic as well as Tourism, tourist traffic. The total length of the road is , making it the longest ring road in Europe. The road was completed in 1974, coinciding with the 1,100th anniversary of Settlement of Iceland, the country's settlement when the longest bridge in Iceland, crossing the Skeiðará river in the southeast, was opened. Previously, vehicles intending to travel between southern settlements, e.g. Vík to Höfn, had to travel north of the country through Akureyri, making the opening a major transport improvement to the country. Many popular tourist attractions in Iceland, su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 between annals and history is a subject based on divisions established by the ancient Romans. Verrius Flaccus, quoted by Aulus Gellius, stated that the etymology of ''history'' (from Ancient Greek, Greek , , equated with Latin , "to inquire in person") properly restricts it to primary sources such as Thucydides's which have come from the author's own observations, while annals record the events of earlier times arranged according to years. Hayden White distinguishes annals from chronicles, which organize their events by topics such as the reigns of kings, and from histories, which aim to present and conclude a narrative implying the moral importance of the events recorded. Generally speaking, annalists record events drily, leaving the entries u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Björn Jónsson á Skarðsá
Björn Jónsson á Skarðsá (1574–1655) was a farmer and a member of the Icelandic Court of Legislature (Iceland), Court of Legislature, characterised by Philip Lavender as 'an important figure on the Icelandic intellectual scene of his day'.Philip Lavender,''Oedipus industrius ænigmatum islandicorum'': Björn Jónsson á Skarðsá's Riddle Commentary, ''Gripla'', 26 (2015), 229–73. He is best known as the author of Skarðsárannáll, a work in the annals, annalistic tradition that spans the period from 1400 to Björn's own day and draws on a combination of oral and written sources. Life Björn's father died when Björn was young, and for the twenty years from c. 1582 to 1602 he grew up in northern Iceland, at Reynistaður in Skagafjörður, in the care of one Sigurður Jónsson. There he must have received his education. From around 1602 he lived at Skarðsá, and in 1616 became a local ''lögréttumaður''. Björn seems to have had a poor relationship with his local bisho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swing Music
Swing music is a style of jazz that developed in the United States during the late 1920s and early 1930s. It became nationally popular from the mid-1930s. Swing bands usually featured soloists who would improvise on the melody over the arrangement. The danceable swing style of big bands and bandleaders such as Benny Goodman was the dominant form of American popular music from 1935 to 1946, known as the swing era, when people were dancing the Lindy Hop. The verb "to swing (jazz performance style), swing" is also used as a term of praise for playing that has a strong groove (music), groove or drive. Musicians, who were also big-band leader of the swing, era include Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Cab Calloway, Benny Carter, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Earl Hines, Bunny Berigan, Harry James, Lionel Hampton, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw. Overview Swing has its roots in 1920s dance music Musical ensemble, ensembles, which began using new styles of written ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
