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Lýtingsstaðahreppur
Lýtingsstaðahreppur was a hreppur, an old Icelandic municipality, in the interior of Skagafjörður County, Iceland, located to the west of the Héraðsvötn.[1] It was named after the Lýtingsstaðir farm in Tungusveit.[2] The hreppur spanned from the Krithóll farm,[3] just south of Vatnsskarð, and all the way south to the watershed in the highlands, where it reaches the boundary of what is considered the "north" and "south" of Iceland. There were several districts in the interior of Lýtingsstaðahreppur:[4]
The area by the Héraðsvötn—across from Úlfsstaðir, Kúskerpi, and Uppsalir in Blönduhlíð—is called Dalspláss. Agriculture is the primary industry in the area, but many people also work in the service sector. A small urban area has formed at two places within the old hreppur, one in Varmalækur in Neðribyggð and another in Steinsstaðir in Tungusveit. Some places in the hreppur have geothermal heating. There are churches in Reykir, Mælifell,[5] and Goðdalir. On June 6, 1998, Lýtingsstaðahreppur joined ten other local governments to form Skagafjörður: Skefilsstaðahreppur, Sauðárkrókur, Skarðshreppur, Seyluhreppur, Staðarhreppur, Rípurhreppur, Viðvíkurhreppur, Hólahreppur, Hofshreppur, and Fljótahreppur.[6] Hreppur councilThe last Lýtingsstaðahreppur council was elected in the hreppur committee election on May 28, 1994, in which Björn Ófeigsson, Elín Sigurðardóttir, Eyjólfur Pálsson, Indriði Stefánsson, and Rósa Björnsdóttir were voted into office.[7] Council chairsSource:[8]
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