Icelandic river and rocks

Barnafoss waterfall

Above Hraunfossar (lava falls) there is another famous waterfall called Barnafoss (children´s fall). According to legend Bar...
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Barnafoss waterfall

Above Hraunfossar (lava falls) there is another famous waterfall called Barnafoss (children´s fall). According to legend Barnafoss takes its name from two children who fell into the waterfall.

The story is something like this: Long time ago there was a widow living on a farm nearby with her two young children. back from the evening service her children had disappeared. People went searching and found their footsteps leading to the stone arch over the river.

Their mother had the arch destroyed promising that no one would ever cross the falls alive again. Iceland has many spooky stories like this one that my opinion makes places even more interesting.
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