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Jorfi is
a well known farm in Valley Haukadalur, where popular annual
festivities were organized until the early 18th century.
The last few celebrations went out of moral control and a magistrate
put a permanent stop to them. The result of the last Jorfi Fiest was
at least 19 children born out of wedlock. The people of the Dalir
District recently started annual celebrations by the same name, but on
totally different notes.
Mt
Jorfahnjukur protrudes behind the farm. One winter in the far past, a
traveller asked for accommodations for himself and his horses, but was
denied the favour. As he rode away angry, he told the farmer not to
be surprised if the space in his horse stable would become vacant
before the year was over. The next year, at about the same time, his
horses were spooked and ran up the slopes of the mountain, where they
skidded on the ice and plunged to death.
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