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Recently the hotel opened a restaurant, which serves beautifully presented Icelandic
fare.
DALIR
The scenic corridor of rolling fields and craggy river-carved buttes between west Iceland
and the Westfjords served as the setting for the
Laxdæla Saga,
the most popular of the
Icelandic sagas. The story revolves around a love triangle between Guðrun Ósvífursdóttir,
said to be the most beautiful woman in Iceland, and the foster brothers Kjartan Ólafsson
and Bolli Þorleiksson. In typical saga fashion, Guðrun had both men wrapped around her
little finger and schemed and connived until both were dead - Kjartan at the hands of
Bolli, and Bolli at the hands of Kjartan's brothers. Most Icelanders know the stories and
characters by heart and hold the area in which the story took place in great historic esteem.
WORTH A TRIP
ERPSSTAÐIR DAIRY FARM
Erpsstaðir
FARM
( 843 0357;
www.erpsstadir.is
;admission to cowshed adult/child Ikr600/free;
1-5pm Jun-mid-
Sep; )
When the peanut gallery starts moaning, 'Are we there yet?', you know it's time to head to
Erpsstaðir, the perfect place to stretch your legs. Like a mirage for sweet-toothed wan-
derers, this dairy farm on the gorgeous Rte 60 (between Búðardalur and the Ring Road;
with high mountain valleys, streams and waterfalls) specialises in delicious home-made
ice cream (Ikr400). You can tour the farm, greet the buxom bovines, chickens, rabbits
and even guinea pigs, then gorge on a scoop. The farm also sells skyrand cheese; try the
rocket-shaped skyr-konfekt(meant to look like an udder), a delicious dessert made from
a hard white chocolate shell encasing thick skyr. It'll blow you away.
Erpsstaðir also offers accommodation (from Ikr13,000) if you're contemplating ice
cream for breakfast…
