Grenjaðarstaður Turf House

Grenjaðarstaður sits in the green farmland of Aðaldalur, about 30 km south of Húsavík. It is one of Iceland's grandest surviving turf houses — a run of grass-roofed rooms behind carved timber gables, walled largely in local lava rock. Once a wealthy parsonage, it was built from 1865 and lived in until 1949; at its height it sheltered up to 30 people. Since 1958 it has been a folk museum, its panelled rooms filled with the everyday objects of pre-modern Iceland.