is a farm on the seaward side of the

Blönduhlíð Blönduhlíð is a district in Iceland in eastern Skagafjörður that lies along the Héraðsvötn river. It spans the area from the Bóluá river in the south of and the Kyrfisá river to the north. Brekknapláss is the outermost part of in , ...

district in

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 ...

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 ...

. It has been conjectured to have been the homestead of the settler Hjálmólfur (also called ) who settled the land there; the land was named after him. is between and . which, according to local lore, is said have been where was buried. He was a

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and, reportedly, told his heirs to bury him where he was least likely to hear the toll of the church bells. is directly between the

Silfrastaðir Silfrastaðir is a farm and church site at the mouth of the Norðurárdalur valley in Skagafjörður, Iceland. The farm's property is vast, spanning from the Bóluá river in Blönduhlíð out to the Kotá river in Norðurárdalur. Most of the l ...

and

Miklibær Miklibær is a church site and parsonage in Blönduhlíð in Skagafjörður, Iceland. The oldest source for the church in Miklibær is from the year 1234 in the Sturlunga Saga, which says from that point on, Kolbeinn ungi (“the young”) Arnó ...

churches, but by the time the legend came to be, it had probably been forgotten that this was also the location of a church in the

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era (one that was quickly decommissioned), so was not ultimately able to escape the tolling of the bells. The cemetery there was turned into a potato field later on and human bones are occasionally dug up along with the potatoes.

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