("Sæmundur's slope") is a district on the western side of

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 ...

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and is located between mountain slopes off the south of

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 eas ...

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

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, it seemed that referred to area that extended farther to the north, all the way to

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 s ...

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

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in pass, and not from . To the north there is the abandoned farm where, in the 17th century, the

annal Annals (, from , "year") are a concise historical record in which events are arranged chronologically, year by year, although the term is also used loosely for any historical record. Scope The nature of the distinction between annals and histo ...

writer and scholar Björn Jónsson lived. Among other works, Björn wrote the ( ''annal''). The region’s outermost farm is where the

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legend Geirmundur Valtýsson comes from.

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