The coastline around the pond Stakhólstjörn is a Natural Monument because of the pseudo-craters found here. Skútustaðir Farm is named after a renowned ancient hero called Víga-Skúta, the possessor of the deadly axe Fluga. The pseudo-craters are formed by steam explosions when burning lava encounters lakes or wetlands.
Reykjadalsá river along the Ring Road is a Trout river in North Iceland with high volume catch every year and is quite usual to catch up to 3000 trout per year and around 100 salmon.
Approaching Goðafoss on the Ring Road, Iceland Highway (þjóðvegur) #1, coming down from Akureyri. Goðafoss Waterfall is nicknamed the “Waterfall of the Gods.” Some believe that the name comes from the fact that the waterfall is god-like in beauty. But there also the myth of Lawspeaker Þorgeir Ljósvetningagoði that was a myth was published in Denmark. In the year 1000, Þorgeir made Christianity the official religion of Iceland. After his conversion, he threw his statues of the Norse gods into the waterfall. Goðafoss is one of the biggest waterfalls in Iceland. Its fed by the river Skjálfandafljót which runs in a 7000-year-old lava field from the Trölladyngja volcano and falls from a height of 12 meters over a width of 30 meters.
Translate
