• Reynistaður, previously Staður í Reynisnesi (“Site in Reynisnes”), is a town in Skagafjörður—a fjord in the north of Iceland. Reynistaður is the location...
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    site of a growing university today. Ábær Hofsós Hólar Keta Miklibær Reynistaður Sauðárkrókur Silfrastaðir Varmahlíð Viðvík Skagafjörður is twinned with:...
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    presumably raised at his father's estate called Stad (Stað) in Reyniness (Reynistaður). This estate was located in the Skagafjord bay area, which is also where...
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    the Héraðsvötn in Skagafjörður, Iceland, named after the church site Reynistaður. On June 6, 1998, Staðarhreppur joined ten other local governments to...
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    by boat to Kolkuós, re-built in Hjaltastaðir in Blönduhlíð, moved to Reynistaður in 1872, to Gil in Borgarsveit in 1884, and finally to Sauðárkrókur in...
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  • twenty years from c. 1582 to 1602 he grew up in northern Iceland, at Reynistaður in Skagafjörður, in the care of one Sigurður Jónsson. There he must have...
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  • low hill that runs from Reykjarhóll along Varmahlíð, in the lee of Reynistaður to the north. The southern part of Langholt used to belong to Seyluhreppur...
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    Þorfinnur Karlsefni and his wife, Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir, lived in Reynistaður before they came from Vinland and bought the land that became Glaumbær...
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    in a family of 19 children. The family moved frequently, settling in Reynistaður near Sauðárkrókur in 1872. There the children were taught privately at...
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