The Sæmundará river is a

spring creek A spring creek is a type of free flowing river whose name derives from its origin: an underground Spring (hydrology), spring or set of springs which produces sufficient water to consistently feed a unique river. The water flowing in a spring cree ...

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 ...

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 originates in

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 ...

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'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 ...

(Sæmundur slope). At the end of

Langholt Langholt is a district in Skagafjörður, Iceland that lies to the west of Héraðsvötn and alongside a broad, low hill that runs from Reykjarhóll along Varmahlíð, in the lee of Reynistaður to the north. The southern part of Langholt used to ...

, 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 (, "Book of Settlements"), often shortened to , is a medieval Icelandic written work which describes in considerable detail the settlement () of Iceland by the Norse in the 9th and 10th centuries CE. is divided into five parts and ov ...

'' 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.

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