The symbolic depiction of Guðríður on the right is a photograph of a sculpture by Ásmundur Sveinsson, dating from 1938, which can be seen in front of the Glaumbær church. Glaumbær chief fame lies in the renown and influence its inhabitants exerted both upon Iceland and the world at large. They were among the first settlers in North America and Greenland and Guðríður gave birth to the first European child born on North American soil. They were heroic and influential people and were featured prominently in the ancient Icelandic sagas.
According to the Sagas, the first known inhabitants of Glaumbær lived here in the 11th century. They are mentioned in the Saga of the Greenlanders, which tells of the explorers Leifur Eiríksson and Þorsteinn Eiríksson, sons of Eiríkur the Red, and Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir wife of Þorsteinn, as well as her second husband Þorfinnur Karlsefni and their son, Snorri Þorfinnsson. Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir is mentioned both in the Saga of the Greenlanders and in the Saga of Eiríkur the Red. Guðríður, a granddaughter of an Irish freedman, was born in the 10th century in Snæfellsnes in western Iceland. She emigrated to the Icelandic settlement in Greenland founded by Eiríkur the Red, and married his son Þorsteinn, who soon died. The young widow then married Þorfinnur Karlsefni, a merchant and a farmer from Staður in Reynines (now Reynistaður) in Skagafjörður.
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Flýtilyklar
The first farmer
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Flýtileiðir
- Heimasíður stofnanna
- Árskóli
- Byggðasafn Skagfirðinga
- Grunnskóli austan Vatna
- Héraðsbókasafn Skagfirðinga
- Hús frítímans
- Leikskólinn Ársalir
- Leikskólinn Birkilundur
- Leikskólinn Tröllaborg
- Menningarhúsið Miðgarður
- Náttúrustofa Norðurlands vestra
- Skagafjarðahafnir
- Sveitarfélagið Skagafjörður
- Tónlistarskóli Skagafjarðar
- Varmahlíðarskóli