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A street-corner house under a deep blue night sky, with warm windows, a white fence and reflections on the wet road.

SÖGUR Í MYRKRINU

Ghosts
of Iceland

Houses in the night.
Another layer of the map.

Explore stories across Iceland

Yiran Ding · City night photography, unrelated to the story locations on this map.

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THE STORY ATLAS

A place to begin a story.

Four stories to begin with. The atlas grows through research and photography.

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Natural Earth geography · approximate settings, not street navigation

The White Lady of HöfðiA house with a documented diplomatic past also carries a story of a woman in white.

Gunna and the steaming springA cooking pot, unpaid rent and a ball of yarn tie Gunna's name to a geothermal landscape.

The Deacon of MyrkáGuðrún's promised rider arrives, though she does not yet know that he has died.

The watcher of HólavallagarðurCould the first person buried here become the one who receives all who follow?

Churches & cemeteriesThe returning deadBuildingsGeothermal talesReading now

Symbols describe story themes, not objects necessarily present on site. Unresolved settings are shown as regions; no graves are pinpointed.

CHOOSE A STORY

A small light.
A story to follow.

Choose a setting or browse the written directory.

A pale gabled house at night, with warm-lit windows and an illuminated entrance.

Yiran Ding · City night photography; no connection to a legend is established, and this is not presented as a haunted building.