“Around midmorning on Whitsun, June 8th of 1783, in clear and calm weather, a black haze of sand appeared to the north of the mountains nearest to farms of the Síða area”. This is how[…]

The Laki eruption was the greatest national calamity in Icelandic history. While the eruption and the flowing lava did not cause direct loss of life, the poisonous indirect effects killed a large proportion of the[…]

Reverend Jón Steingrímsson (1728-1791) assumed his ministry in the Síða parish in 1778 and served the church at Kirkjubæjarklaustur during the Laki eruption. He was a man of strong faith, but also took great interest[…]