Möðruvellir

Möðruvellir, a manor farm now and in the past. The home of Guðmundur ríki (“the rich”) Eyjólfs­son in Saga times. Early in the 15th century the home of Loftur ríki Gutt­ormsson and later of his descendants. In the church there is a fine old altar–piece. In the churchyard there is the only remaining bell–gate of its kind, dating from around 1780. In the keeping of the Nati­onal Museum since 1962.