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Feykisholar is an abandoned farm
in Valley Hvalsardalur in
the Strandir District. The topograpical name Church Mound (Kirkjuholl)
on the property suggests a prayer chapel or a church there in the past.
According to the legend, a ghost impregnated the farmers daughter,
foretold her accidental death and that their son would become a priest.
He would meet his fate during his first services in front of the
altar of the Feykisholar Church. There he would turn the evangelium to
the devils words and the church would sink unless someone would pierce
him with a sword tempered in holy water. The priest was pierced and the
church did not vanish, but according to the prophesy of the ghost, it
burnt down soon afterwards. Nothing remained of the priest but three
drops of blod. An old coneshaped wellhouse, constructed of turf, stood
on the property until recent times. |