Brúará

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Brúará
Ford point at the waterfall

Ford point at the waterfall

Data
location Southurland ( Iceland )
River system Ölfusá
Drain over Hvítá  → Ölfusá  → Atlantic
source Rótasandur
muzzle in the Hvítá coordinates: 64 ° 4 ′ 34 ″  N , 20 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W 64 ° 4 ′ 34 ″  N , 20 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W.

Brúará near Miðhúsaskógur

Brúará near Miðhúsaskógur

The Brúará ( dt. "Bridge River ") is a 38 km long river in the region of Suðurland in southern Iceland.

River course

The Brúará rises in Rótasandur east of the Högnhöfði mountain and flows south through the 3 to 4 km long Brúararskörð gorge. After the Brúarfoss waterfall , the river reaches the Miðfoss and Hlauptungufoss waterfalls . The small river Fullsæll flows into the Brúará, before it flows further south past Skálholt and Mosfell east of the Apavatn , with which it is connected via the Hagaós river. It finally flows into the Hvítá , a little northeast of Sólheimar , at the point where it flows past the Vörðufell tabular volcano .

History and legends

Jón Gerreksson , a bishop of Skálholt, was reportedly drowned in the river in 1433.

Near the Brúarfoss, about 3 km north of today's bridge, there is said to have been a natural stone arch over the river, which gave the Brúará its name. In 1602, according to a legend, on the orders of the Skálholt estate manager, the arch was destroyed to cut off the path to the village for beggars. A little later, the land manager is said to have drowned himself in the Brúará.

traffic

The Laugarvatnsvegur S37 crossed from Laugarvatn coming that Brúará and leads to the Great Geysir .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kortasjá Landmælinga Íslands
  2. ↑ Jens Willhardt, Christine Sadler: Iceland. 3rd updated and revised edition. Michael Müller, Erlangen 2003, ISBN 3-89953-115-9 , pp. 287f.

Web links

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