20. Kerlingarstadir / Oddsflöt

As best is known, Kerlingarstadir is first mentioned in the book Gíslamáldagi around 1570; the land at that time belonged to Stadarkirkja church, and did so for a long time after that. There were fourteen people living at Kerlingarstadir in 1703, and eleven in 1801, at two farms. The settlement got the name Oddsflöt late in the 19th century.

Gudfinna Ingibjörg Gudjónsdóttir, who grew up there, said that in Hladsteinn, a large rock above and in front of the house at Oddsflöt, there had been seen hidden people. At Oddsflöt was the last turf house in Grunnavíkurhreppur parish that people lived in. Gudmundur Pálsson from Höfdi and Elísa G. Einarsdóttir from Dynjanda were among the final residents at Oddsflöt. They moved to Ísafjördur in 1942 after being denied permission to build a new house by the sea at Grunnavík. Jóhann Jakob Jóhannsson from Faxastadir lived after that at Oddsflöt for five years, and was the last resident there. Ragúel Hagalínsson bought the land then, smoothed out the old Kerlingarstaudr knoll, and used wood from the farm for the barn at Sætún. Ragúel was among the last group of people to leave Grunnavík in November of 1962. Ragúel's house blew away in a blizzard in 1973.

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