The Sel farmstead. The black expanse in the background is a "sandur," a 20 km long gravel field created by dust and sand blown off the glacier and carried in the glacial rivers. There are stories of ships crashing into the shore because they couldn't tell where the ocean ended and the land began. Other stories tell of sailors dying trying to cross the sandurs.

Very desolate, but you can almost understand why you'd build a home here, especially if you didn't like other people!