Heydalir - Eydalir
About place
Eydalir in Breiðdalur valley has been a vicarage since early christanity in Iceland and a number of renowned vicars have served there through the ages. Among them was the hymnpoet Einar Sigurðsson (17th. century) whose poetry is still venerated among the nation. A pillarstone has been erected in his memory at Eydalir.
