Godafoss, Iceland’s Waterfall Of The Gods
Driving about sixty miles outside Akureyri through a hilly landscape you arrive at a fractured stretch of countryside marked by rugged volcanic rock with a river flowing through a narrow canyon. Walking a short distance up the canyon rim is an overlook above Godafoss Waterfall. It is one of Iceland’s seven major waterfalls and a popular destination.
Godafoss is the “Waterfall of the Gods”. Named in Icelandic sagas, because in the year 1000 AD, a local chieftain named Thorgeir Thorkelsson converted to Christianity and had his people throw the pagan idols into the waterfall, symbolizing the end of pagan conflict with Christianity in Iceland.
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