Selfoss

Selfoss lies on the banks of the Ölfusá in the lowlands of southern Iceland. Settlement traditions place Þórir Ásason here after the year 1000, while the sagas also associate the neighboring mountain of Ingólfsfjall with Ingólfr Arnarson's first winter in Iceland. The broad river runs toward the southern coast through farming country. Long before a town grew at the crossing, the river and its surrounding lowlands formed part of the landscape of scattered Icelandic farms.