Örlygsstaðir

Örlygsstaðir, an important historical site with some ruins a short distance above the home–field of Víði­vellir.

This was the scene of one of the most fateful battles of old, Örlygs­staða­bardagi, in 1238, when Sturla Sighvatsson was killed together with his father and brothers and about 60 others. Memorial to the battle.