Dalasýsla

Dalasýsla (blue) on a map of Iceland

The Dalasýsla is a district in the west of Iceland .

The district is located around the bay of Hvammsfjörður and on the Klofningsnes peninsula. Its area covers 2078 km² and consists only of the municipality Dalabyggð , which was originally formed from up to ten individual municipalities. The Dalasýsla is in the constituency of Norðvesturkjördæmi .

Sons and daughters of the church

• Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241), writer and politician
• Árni Magnússon (1663–1730), linguist and manuscript collector
• Ásmundur Sveinsson (1893–1982), sculptor