Keldur

[1] On 18 December 2001 the village was placed on Iceland's tentative world heritage list for its traditional turf-covered houses.

In the 13th century, the chieftain Hálfdan Sæmundsson, grandson of Jón, and his wife Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir lived at Keldur.

From the residential building, an old underground passage leads to the farm stream, which was rediscovered during an archaeological excavation in 1998.

In the past, the land north of Keldur was an overgrown area with several farms now buried in the black lava sand.

When the thick layer of pumice settled after the volcanic eruption, south and southwest of Hekla, sand began to blow through wind erosion towards Rangárvellir and the village of Keldur.