Bjarnarhafnarfjall

Bjarnarhafnarfjall
Berserkjahraun lava field with Bjarnarhafnarfjall in the background
height	575  m
location	Snæfellsnes Peninsula , Iceland
Coordinates	64 ° 58 '57 "  N , 23 ° 0' 2"  W Coordinates: 64 ° 58 '57 "  N , 23 ° 0' 2"  W.
Type	Tabular volcano

The Bjarnarhafnarfjall (575 m) is a mountain in the west of Iceland . It is located in the north of the Snæfellsnes peninsula between the towns of Stykkishólmur and Grundarfjörður .

location

The mountain lies on a peninsula. This is bounded in the north and northeast by the fjord Breiðafjörður , in the west by the side fjords of the same, by Kolgrafafjörður and in the southwest by Hraunsfjörður . In the southeast, the mountain is connected to the mainland, more precisely to the Berserkjahraun lava field .

geology

The mountain is a tabular volcano and belongs to the Ljósufjöll volcanic system . The Berserkjahraun lava field originates from a post-glacial eruption of this system and partially surrounds the mountain on both sides, in the north it protrudes into the sea as a peninsula.

Ascent

You can climb the mountain from the east.

From the northern summit Skipþúfa (= dt. The ship's dome , 569 m) people used to look out for ships on the Breiðafjörður .

Bjarnarhöfn farm

Plan of the house (around 1885)

Bjarnarhöfn farm is located to the east at the foot of Bjarnarhafnarfjall.

This farm has a long history that goes back to the time of the land grabbing , the settlement of Iceland in the 9th and 10th centuries. The founder of the farm was the Viking Björn austræni , a brother of the settler Auður djúpúðga ( Eng . Auður the profound ). This is reported in the land register .

The natural healer and fortune teller Þorleifur Þorleifsson (1801–1877) lived here in the 19th century .

From 1914 to 1929 the farm was owned by Thor Jensen (1863-1947), who kept over 600 sheep here.

The current owner of the farm, Hildibrandur Bjarnason, has built a museum on the grounds of the farm to catch and process the Greenland Shark. There you can also see the oldest Icelandic fishing boat that is still in use (probably from 1860).

The church by the courtyard also has a long history. In the Icelandic saga Eyrbyggja it is mentioned that the Viking Viga-Styrr built a church in the Berserkjahraun soon after the Christianization of Iceland in 1000. This was probably relocated to Bjarnarhöfn in the 12th or 13th century, as there has been evidence of a branch of the Helgafell monastery parish there since that time . The current church was built in 1856 and has a. a. a 17th century altar in Rembrandt style .

See also

• Geography of Iceland
• Volcanoes in Iceland
• History of Iceland
• List of mountains and elevations in Iceland

Web links

• Homepage Bjarnarhöfn (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ari Trausti Guðmundsson , Pétur Þorleifsson: Íslensk fjöll. Gönguleiðir á 151 tind. Reykjavík (Mál og Menning) 2004, p. 28
2. ^ Einar H. Kristjánsson: Snæfellsnes norðan fjalla. Ferdafélag Íslands, árbók 1986. Reykjavík (Oddi) 1986, p. 78
3. ^ Einar H. Kristjánsson: Snæfellsnes norðan fjalla. Ferdafélag Íslands, árbók 1986. Reykjavík (Oddi) 1986, p. 117
4. ↑ s. Morgunblaðið: http://www.mbl.is/mm/gagnasafn/grein.html?grein_id=213091 Accessed: May 28, 2010
5. ^ Einar H. Kristjánsson: Snæfellsnes norðan fjalla. Ferdafélag Íslands, árbók 1986. Reykjavík (Oddi) 1986, p. 113f.