Guðrúnarlaug

West Iceland


This hot pot with a view across the Dalir region is close to the original pool (now buried under a landslide) where the woman at the centre of the Laxardal Saga, Guðrún, 'the most beautiful woman ever to have grown up in Iceland', regularly took a dip. There's a small changing room.


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