Njardvik Cliffs

Njardvik Cliffs

About the place

Njarðvíkurskriður is a long scree slope on the road into Borgarfjörður eystri, in East Iceland. By the roadside stands the Naddakross, a plain wooden cross marking where the monster Naddi is said to have ambushed travellers until it was driven off in the early 1300s. Beyond the legend, it is a good place to pull over: loose rhyolite tumbles to the sea, seabirds work the cliffs and the fjord opens out ahead.