Árbók Hins íslenzka fornleifafélags

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Árbók Hins íslenzka fornleifafélags - 01.01.1964, Page 108

Árbók Hins íslenzka fornleifafélags - 01.01.1964, Page 108
110 ÁRBÓK t'ORNLÉIFAFÉLAGSINS verið gerðar svona rækilega úr einni steinaröð, svo að hvergi vott- ar fyrir steini ofan á steini. Satt að segja kemur þetta helzt svo fyrir sjónir sem þarna hafi aldrei neinir veggir verið, heldur hafi þessir steinar verið lagðir á jörðina og raðað eins og verið væri að marka fyrir einhvers konar húsum. Manni dettur í hug leikur barna — eða jafnvel fullorðinna, því að sumir steinanna eru ekki barna meðfæri, þótt flestir séu þeir fremur smáir. Ég hef að vísu ekki á takteinum viðhlítandi skýringu, get þó tekið undir þá tilgátu, sem Gísli bóndi Brynjólfsson á Lundi varpaði fram, að ef til vill hafi verið þarna stöðull eða kvíaból, en fulla ástæðu tel ég til að gjalda varhuga við þessum minjum sem raunverulegum húsatóft- um á þessu stigi máls. Ég neita því ekki, að þær geti verið það, en rétt er að hafa í liuga framvegis, hvort aðrar minjar annars stað- ar í landinu gætu gefið einhverjar bendingar, sem leiddu örugg- lega til rétts skilnings á þessu fyrirbrigði. Skal þessu varpað hér fram öðrum mönnum til íhugunar og athugunar, þegar tækifæri gefst. SUMMARY Remarks on the house ruins at Lundur. This paper deals with the interpretation of a group of house ruins at Lundur, Borgarfjarðarsýsla, in Southwest-Iceland. In 1884 Sigurður Vigfússon had already carried out a hasty excavation of the site. He was convinced that he had before him the remnants of a hof, a temple from the pagan period, a supposition based on a vague local tradition. The ruins were re-excavated by J. Voionmaa in 1939. This time the excavation was very efficiently carried out and the ground plan of the houses came to light in great detail. Two oblong houses are placed end to end as shown on Voionmaa’s plan on p. 105. They were thought to be „farm-houses proper”, the actual living-quarters of a farmer and his household. The present author, however, maintains that these ruins represent a cowshed (a byre) and a barn respectively, dating probably from the Middle Ages. For comparison a striking case is shown on p. 108, the ground plan of a byre and barn at Gröf in öræfi, Southeast-Iceland, a farm devastated in 1362. So striking is the similarity in fact that there cannot be any doubt as to the correctness of this identification of the Lundur houses. The author points out in addition that the situation of the houses on the edge of a steep hill makes it almost impossible to identify them as actual farm-houses, whereas outhouses might very normally be situated that way.
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