Iceland: Day 8- Goðafoss

July 2, 2004

On the way to Myvatn we had a picnic of sandwiches and stopped to view another famous Icelandic waterfall - Goðafoss (God's waterfall). This is the site where Þorgeir - the lawspeaker who decided that Christianity should be Iceland's official religion at the historic Alþing in 1000 - destroyed his pagan statues by pushing them over the falls.

Goðafoss is horseshoe shaped like Niagara falls but a bit smaller.
(rubby is on the rock cliff to the right -- see the orange dot?)

It's amazing to see the force of the water.

A bit of sun lighting up the falls on an otherwise cloudy day.

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