SvÃnavatn
The Svínavatn is a lake south of Blönduós in Iceland in the district Austur - Húnavatnssýsla.
Name
Location
He is after Hóp the largest lake in the area Hunathing. To the west of the lake adjacent to the massif of Vatnsdalsfjalls.
Important Dates
Its area is 11.78 km ². It lies 123 meters above sea-level, is about 10 km long and 1-2 km wide and up to 38.5 m deep.
In this lake you can catch trout.
The river Fremri - Laxá flows out of the lake and pours later in the Laxárvatn, which is 38 m deeper than the Svínavatn.
Colonization
Another important yard on the south end of the lake is Auðkúla. This was until 1952, the parish seat of the area. This farm can look back on a long tradition, but had the first settlers of the area, a certain Eyvindur auðkúla here according Conquest book his seat, the Court was called in earlier times Auðkúlustaðir. Even today, a small octagonal church here. It was built in 1894 and renovated in the 70s under the supervision of the National Museum. It is reported that the pastor Séra Stefán M. Jónsson (1852-1930) would have on the pattern of a Russian church can be built that he had seen in a Danish newspaper.