
Stöng í Þjórsárdal
Excavated medieval farm ruins in Þjórsárdalur, buried after Hekla's 1104 eruption and first systematically excavated in 1939.
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About Stöng í Þjórsárdal
Excavated medieval farm ruins in Þjórsárdalur, buried after Hekla's 1104 eruption and first systematically excavated in 1939.
One of Iceland's most important excavated medieval farm sites, preserved beneath Hekla's 1104 tephra.
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The buried remains at Stöng provide unusually detailed evidence of medieval Icelandic farm life. Archaeologists have identified the farmhouse, cowshed, smithy and later a church and graveyard. A separate reconstruction, Þjóðveldisbærinn, was built elsewhere in Þjórsárdalur to interpret this style of farmstead.
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The farm was abandoned after Hekla's 1104 eruption.
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