Vopnafjörður
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Vopnafjörður is a village and municipality in Northeast Iceland, standing on a peninsula in the middle of a mountainous bay by the same name. The main industries of Vopnafjörður are fish processing, a
Skyline of Vopnafjarðarhreppur
The bay seen from the top of Krossavík Mountains.
Gunnar Gunnarsson
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Gunnar Gunnarsson was an Icelandic author who wrote mainly in Danish. He grew up, in considerable poverty, on Valþjófsstaður in Fljótsdalur valley and on Ljótsstaðir in Vopnafjörður. During the first
Vopnafjörður
…Highland farms, the setting that inspired Nobel Prize-winning author Halldór Laxness' novel Independent People. Ljótsstaðir, childhood home of Gunnar Gunnarsson. Múlastofa, a museum about the lives and art of Vopnafjörður-born musicians and playwrights Jón Múli Árnason and Jónas Árnason…
Gunnar Gunnarsson
Gunnar Gunnarsson's house named Skriðuklaustur.
Skriðuklaustur.