Experience the Settlement Period Farm of Eirik the Red and Leif Eiriksson

Come sit by the fire in a Viking longhouse as our historian guides tell you all about life in the tenth century and the sagas that started here. Iceland is famous for its Viking heritage but it is rare to find places where you can see what everyday life for the first settlers was really like. At Eiriksstadir we combine the fascinating realities of daily life on the edge of the then known world and the thrilling exploits of the family that built the original farm in the nine hundreds.

Our guides will bring you inside our fully furnished replica which stands beside the ruined original. Here you can sit by the fire and hear the sagas as they were originally told. You can see touch and smell the way people lived over a thousand years ago. You will learn about the surprising ways that women contributed to the running of the family and farm as well as all the ingenious ways people survived in a land without many of the resources of their homelands. Visiting Eiriksstadir is a chance to experience the daily life of early Icelanders while exploring the sagas that shaped history.