Ármann's hide
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 Ármannsfell in the background behind the water-filled Peningagjá |
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| height | 768 m | |
| location | Iceland | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ N , 21 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Type | Tabular volcano | |
| rock | especially palagonite and olivine basalt | |
 Ármannsfell behind the eastern part of the Almannagjá |
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 Ármannsfell left, seen from the viewpoint at the National Park Center |
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Ármannsfell is a mountain in the southwest of Iceland . It reaches a height of 768 meters.
Surname
Legends attribute the name of the mountain to one of the first settlers, who was called Ármann. He was half human, half troll and eventually died in the mountain.
location
The mountain is located in Nationalparkingvellir National Park . If you drive out from there in the direction of the highland slopes Uxarhryggur and Kaldidalur , the partially eroded tabular volcano is north of the road.
The road, which has become a piste, crosses the pass between the Ármannsfell and the Lágafell (538) mountain, which is connected to it via the Tröllháls pass, and then slopes steeply to the Sandkluftavatn lake . This lake, which sometimes almost dries up in summer, is located on the northeast side of the mountain.
geology
The mountain consists largely of palagonite and was formed under an ice age glacier. The uppermost layers of the tabular volcano are made of olivine basalt .
It belongs to the volcanic system of the central volcano Hrafnabjörg , which is opposite it on the other side of the Þingvellir rift.
However, there is also a crevice that can be traced back to the continental drift and which is typically parallel to the Þingvellir rift and thus to the rift zone. Their orientation is accordingly from northeast to southwest.
Hiking on the Ármannsfell
Numerous hiking trails lead up the mountain. For example, you can climb the ledges that lead from the path to Uxarhryggur up the mountain.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ari Trausti Guðmundsson , Pétur Þorleifsson: Íslensk fjöll. Gönguleiðir á 151 tind. Mál og Menning, Reykjavík 2004, ISBN 9979-32493-7 , p. 22.
- ↑ Such deaths, especially with trolls or half-trolls, are often told in legends, cf. also Haukadalur (Bergþór í Bláfelli) and Bárður Snæfellsás .
- ↑ a b Íslandshandbókin. Náttúra, saga og sérkenni. 2. bindi. Örn og Örlygur, Reykjavík 1989, p. 778 f.
- ^ A b Thor Thordarson, Armann Hoskuldsson: Classic Geology in Europe. Volume 3: Þor Þorðarson, Armann Hoskuldsson: Iceland. Terra, Harpenden 2002, ISBN 1-903544-06-8 , p. 75.