STÖNG FARM The best known Viking Age farm to endure abandoned inwards the catastrophic
1104 eruption. Photo/Thomas Romst
A recent archeological honour inwards Þjórsárdalur valley inwards South Republic of Iceland reminds us but how much of the history of Viking Age Republic of Iceland is nonetheless shrouded inwards mystery. Several items, including a Thor's Hammer amulet, were discovered at a previously unknown farmstead. The farm is believed to bring been abandoned afterward an eruption inwards Hekla volcano.
Destroyed past times Hekla
A catastrophic eruption inwards Hekla inwards the twelvemonth 1104 destroyed numerous farms inwards Þjórsárdalur valley. The thick ash as well as tephra deposited past times the volcano left previously prosperous farmlands uninhabitable. Historians had cognition of twenty unlike farms which were abandoned next the eruption. The divulge is upwardly to 21 next the close recent find.
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