Hof in Höfðaströnd

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Town
Hof á Höfðaströnd
Country	Iceland
County	Skagafjörður
Time zone	UTC+0

Hof in Höfðaströnd is a town and church site in Skagafjörður, Iceland, a little ways up from Hofsós. It was previously a parsonage.[1] The Hof church was built from wood between the years of 1868 and 1870 and it is a protected building.[2]

Hof was a manor where many magistrates lived in previous centuries. This included:

• Brandur Jónsson, lawyer (died 1494)[3]
• Hrafn Brandsson the younger, who lived in Hof before he obtained Glaumbær from Teitur Þorleifsson[4]
• Magnús Björnsson, lawyer and grandson of Jón Arason[5]
• Skúli Magnússon, later a treasurer, also lived in Hof the first year that he was the sheriff of Skagafjörður[6]

Pálmi Jónsson, founder of Hagkaup, was born in Hof on June 3, 1923, and was brought up there.[7] His daughter Lilja bought Hof and undertook a considerable number of projects there including building a house designed by Studio Granda, which won a design award in 2007.[8] It was also nominated for the European Union Architectural Awards.

References

1. "Höfði Höfðaströnd - NAT ferðavísir" (in Icelandic). 2020-07-07. Retrieved 2024-09-14.
2. "Hofskirkja á Höfðaströnd". 2017-09-29. Archived from the original on 2017-09-29. Retrieved 2024-09-15.
3. "Skutull - 21.-27. Tölublað (24.12.1956) - Tímarit.is". timarit.is. Retrieved 2024-09-15.
4. "Skagfirðingabók - 1. tölublað (01.01.2014) - Tímarit.is". timarit.is. Retrieved 2024-09-15.
5. "Gripla - 23. árgangur 2012 (20.12.2012) - Tímarit.is". timarit.is. Retrieved 2024-09-15.
6. "Þjóðlíf - 10. tölublað (01.10.1988) - Tímarit.is". timarit.is. Retrieved 2024-09-15.
7. "Andvari - 118. Tölublað (01.01.1993) - Tímarit.is". timarit.is. Retrieved 2024-09-15.
8. "Fréttatíminn - 20. tölublað (13.05.2016) - Tímarit.is". timarit.is. Retrieved 2024-09-15.