Bóla is an abandoned farm in
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 , ...
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
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that was a
smallholding
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from Uppsala previously named . It was abandoned for most of the 18th century and up until 1833, when the poet
Hjálmar Jónsson lived on the farm, which he first called , but later named Bóla, which it was called from then on. The river flows a short distance from the farm and creates seven waterfalls down a massive gorge, . According to folklore, the troll woman Bóla lived there.
Bóla is best known for being the residence of who lived there from 1833–1843, but his residency there ended after he was suspected of theft. Hjálmar’s memorial was erected in Bóla in 1955. The farm has been abandoned since 1976.
Notes
: This is not a reference to
Uppsala
Uppsala ( ; ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the capital of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019.
Loc ...
in
Sweden
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, but a place in Iceland that, at one time, was called Uppsala.
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Skagafjörður
Farms in Iceland