Eiríksstaðir

According to Landnámabók and the Saga of Erik the Red, after first settling in Vestfirðir, Eiríkr married Þjóðhildur Jǫrundardóttir and established the farm of Eiríksstaðir near the Vatnshorn in Haukadalur.

His son Leifr was born there, but Eiríkr had to leave the area after killing two men in revenge for the deaths of two of his thralls.

[2] In 1997–2002, at the request of the Eiríksstaðanefnd (Eirísstaðir committee), Guðmundur Ólafsson conducted a further investigation for the National Museum of Iceland.

In the initial investigation in 1895, Þorsteinn Erlingsson thought there had been an attached bake-house at the rear, but the 1997 dig confirmed Mattías Þórðarson's belief that the rocks there were from a natural landslide.

It aims to reproduce Erik the Red's home as accurately as possible; the longhouse was built in imitation of the excavated building, using driftwood and replica tools.