Jósepsdalur

Jósepsdalur (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈjouːsɛpsˌtaːlʏr̥]),[1] also Josefsdalur [-sɛfs-],[2] is a small valley, about 2 km long in southwestern direction,[3] and to the east of the volcano Vífilsfell up on Hellisheiði at a distance of about 25 km from Reykjavík within Selvogshreppur municipality.

[5] The valley is situated next to an old trail over the pass Ölfusskarð from Ölfus, the region in the south of Iceland around Hveragerði, to Reykjavík.

to an old folk tale, a troll woman shall have lived in a cave in Jósepsdalur.

In the end, his farm with him and all his family was caught by the devil and disappeared in the underworld.

[4] Another hiking tour goes from Jósepsdalur over the pass Ólafsskarð to the Leitin shield volcano and from there following the Reykjavegur hiking trail, which crosses the Reykjanes peninsula from its tip at Reykjanesvíti and Gunnuhver to Þingvellir, to the craters Syðri Eldborg and Nyrðri Eldborg which produced around the year 1000 the Kristnitökuhraun lava field.