Hof in Höfðaströnd

Hof in Höfðaströnd is a town and church site in Skagafjörður, Iceland, a little ways up from Hofsós.

[1] The Hof church was built from wood between the years of 1868 and 1870 and it is a protected building.

[2] Hof was a manor where many magistrates lived in previous centuries.

This included: Pálmi Jónsson, founder of Hagkaup, was born in Hof on June 3, 1923, and was brought up there.

[7] His daughter Lilja bought Hof and undertook a considerable number of projects there including building a house designed by Studio Granda, which won a design award in 2007.