Lindarsel

Lindarsel
N65°22.20-W15°25.80

This was the last home to be established in Jökuldalsheiði. That occurred in 1862, on land which had previously belonged to Skjöldólfsstaðir. Lindarsel was settled by Lovísa Dorotea, whose father was the doctor Jörgen Kjerulf at Brekka; and Guðmundur, a son of Hallgrímur, farmer at Skörð in Reykjahverfi. The couple soon had a daughter, Ólöf Dorotea, but Lovisa died shortly afterwards and Guðmundur gave up farming, leaving Lindarsel in 1863. Ólöf Dorotea moved to the Americas with her grandmother. Before the Lindarsel farm was built, there was probably a refuge hut there, situated by the old trail between Möðrudalur and Skjöldólfsstaðir, a trail referred to in 1532 as Skjöldólfsstaðavegur.