Tag: Borgarnes

Toy Box

As there are in small towns across the island, in Borgarnes, on Iceland’s Snaefellsnes peninsula, there is a local folk history museum. They are all...

Suburban Turf

No big deal. Just a turf house in the middle of a small town....

What Egil Saw

This is the view from the hill above the house that is built on the sight of the farm where Egil Skallagrimsson lived a thousand...

Graveyards

My mom is really into genealogy, and when I was a kid, we always had to stop at old graveyards to look for our ancestors....

Egil’s House

  Obviously, this house and its attendant church are much more recent constructions than the house that Egil Skallagrimsson built. But this is Egil’s Farm....