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Updated: May 25, 2025
I had no idea of the spectacle which was awaiting us in the peninsula of Snæfell, where these ruins of a fiery nature have formed a frightful chaos. In two hours from Rejkiavik we arrived at the burgh of Gufunes, called Aolkirkja, or principal church. There was nothing remarkable here but a few houses, scarcely enough for a German hamlet. Hans stopped here half an hour.
There our horses were baited; then taking the narrow path to left between a chain of hills and the sea, they carried us to our next stage, the aolkirkja of Brantär and one mile farther on, to Saurboër 'Annexia, a chapel of ease built on the south shore of the Hvalfiord. It was now four o'clock, and we had gone four Icelandic miles, or twenty-four English miles.
It took us more than an hour to cross the fiord; but the passage was effected without any mishap. In another half hour we had reached the aolkirkja of Gardär It ought to have been night-time, but under the 65th parallel there was nothing surprising in the nocturnal polar light. In Iceland during the months of June and July the sun does not set. But the temperature was much lower.
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