Vopnafjordur

Vopnafjörður opens into a mountainous bay on Iceland's northeastern coast. Its name, the "fjord of weapons," is linked to the settler Eyvindur vopni. Feuds between local chieftains in the tenth century became the subject of Vopnfirðinga saga, written in the thirteenth. In later centuries foreign merchants sailed into the bay, and Vopnafjörður was one of eastern Iceland's trading ports during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its harbor connected the farms and settlements around the fjord to ships crossing the North Atlantic.