Borgarnes

Borgarnes stands on a peninsula by Borgarfjörður in western Iceland. The name recalls Borg á Mýrum, the farm of Egill Skallagrímsson, the poet and warrior celebrated in Egil's Saga. His father Skallagrímur is also remembered in the district, where a hill is traditionally identified as his grave. The fjord and surrounding farms form the setting for a saga in which settlement, kinship and conflict connect Iceland to the wider Norse world across the North Atlantic.