Bakkagerði

Bakkagerði is a town in the municipality Borgarfjorður in eastern Iceland. On 1 January 2011, the city had 100 inhabitants.

Geography and transport

Bakkagerði is located on Borgarfjörður eystri, after which the town is sometimes called Borgarfjorður eystri, and has a harbor. The place is about 70 km from Egilsstaðir and 725 road kilometers from Reykjavík.

The road to Bakkagerði goes from the Bay Héraðsflói on the unpaved road pass Vatnsskarð eystra and a cape.

On the road Borgarfjarðarvegur you pass the wooden cross Naddakross. It will be built again for centuries and is, according to legend the travelers before the monster Naddi protect this dangerous path right on the coast.

The surroundings with its colorful rhyolite mountains and the split in the middle of the mountain range Dyrfjöll is now a well known hiking area.

Culture and sights

The place Bakkagerði has always been considered special seat of elves.

Sealing the place is located, according to tradition one of the residences of the elf king and his court under the rock Álfaborg.

The well-known painter Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval grew up in this place and created a rather unusual version of the Sermon on the Mount as an altarpiece in 1901 consecrated the Church: Jesus is on the Álfaborg.

In sales and showroom of the company Álfasteinn there are decorative and useful items made ​​of stone.