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Borgarnes travel guide

about Borgarnes

Borgarnes is a small town located on a peninsula at the shore of Bay Borgarfjörður in Iceland. It has the population of 1770 (numbers from 2003). The town is located 60 km north of the capital Reykjavík and is connected to other places in Iceland through the seccond largest bridge in Iceland, Borgarfjarðarbrú.

Borgarnes history

Borgarnes is first noted in Egils Saga but in the saga it is called Digranes. The first Settler to live there was called Grani, a shipmate of Skallagrímur, the first landlord and settler of the Borgarfjörður-area.

There is no known history of settlement in Borgarnes after Grani's days untill the 19th century. Just after Iceland gained freedom from the Danish trading monopoly, there was a grait demeand for a trading place in the area and the Danish King authorized Borgarnes as a trading place in 1861.

The first building built in Borgarnes was a canning fatcory. It was built in 1857 but it was tared down a fiew years later. A trading house was built in Borgarnes in the year of 1877 and a fiew years later settlement in Borgarnes begun for real.

In 1913, Borgarnes offically became a town called Borgarneshreppur but had it's name changed to Borgarnesbær in 1987. Later on, in 1994, Borgarnesbær united with Hraunhreppur, Norðurárdalshreppur, and Stafholtstungnahreppur under the name Borgarbyggð, using the Borgarnes seal and [offices]. In 1998, Álftaneshreppur, Borgarhreppur and Þverárhlíðarhreppur also became a part of Borgarbyggð.

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