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26. Höfdi
There were ten people living at Höfdi in 1703, by 1801 there was one more; at that time there were two farms at Höfdi. In Jardabók the church at Stadur is named as the owner of this land. The farm at Höfdi is by a bay called Höfdabót. In the bay there is a vertical rock called Sólarlagssteinn (Sunset Rock); seen from the farm, the sunset at the autumn equinox cuts across it. The Bæjará river runs across the field to the sea; its source is at Hestur, from there the view is good over the southern part of the Jökulfirdir fjords. A short way from Bæjará is the so-called Sorgarhylur at Urridalækur brook. It is said that a young child drowned there as it was looking for its mother who was herding sheep. Above the brook is the Gvendarbrunnar well, which never froze, according to Rebekka Pálsdóttir who grew up at Höfdi, living later at Dynjandi and Bæir on the Snæfjallaströnd coast. Rebekka was the daughter of Páll Halldórsson and Steinunn Jóhannsdóttir who lived at Höfdi in the early part of the 20th century, and before that at Bæir at Snæfjallaströnd. There descendants were the final residents at Höfdi before it was abandoned in 1956.
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