Eyri, a church and old manor farm, home of Magnús Magnússon (1630–1704), sheriff and writer. The neighbouring farm Tröð, now abandoned, was the birthplace of Magnús Hj. Magnússon (1873–1916), the poet of Þröm, who was the model for Nobel Prize–winning novelist H. Laxness’s Ólafur Ljósvíkingur in Heimsljós.