Hvammur í Laxárdal (Hvammur in Laxárdalur valley) is an abandoned farm, church site, and former

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in Skagafjörður County,

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Hvammur is in Laxárdalur valley, which is west of Tindastóll mountain. It previously belonged to

Skefilsstaðahreppur Skefilsstaðahreppur was a hreppur, an old Icelandic municipality, in Skagafjörður (municipality), Skagafjörður County, Iceland national football team, Iceland, on the east side of the Skagi peninsula. It is named after the town Skefilsstað ...

, but is now part of Skagafjörður County and it fell under the authority of the

Sauðárkrókur Sauðárkrókur () is a Localities of Iceland, town on the Skagafjörður in northern Iceland. It is the seat of both the Skagafjörður (municipality), Sveitarfélagið Skagafjörður ('Municipality of Skagafjörður') and the Northwestern Re ...

parish after the parish closed down in 1970, which included both Hvammur and the church in

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Skagi Skagi is the name of the peninsula between Húnaflói and Skagafjörður, which derives its name from Skagi. There used to be three municipalities in Skagi; two were and , now named Húnabyggð and Skagaströnd, on the western side, which bel ...

. The priests' wages were considered extremely meager in Hvammur and the priests were poor. The church in Hvammur used to be called , dedicated to Saint Ólaf. The current church is made of wood and was built in 1892. There is an old, abandoned farm a short distance from Hvammur called Atlastaðir. It is said that Atli, son of the settler Eilífur örn (“the eagle”) Atlason, had lived there, but it is likely that Hvammur had been Eilífur's homestead.

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