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SUMMARY
The present paper is a report of an excavation carried out in the years 1971—
1972 on the archaeological site Sámsstaðir, farm ruins situated in Þjórsárdalur,
a valley in Southern Iceland, uninhabited since the Hekla eruption of 1104.
The first chapter surveys the written sources dealing with Þjórsárdalur
from the Middle Ages onwards. The first mention of SAmsstaðir dates from
about 1600. There follows an account of earlier obsei-vations and excavations at
Sámsstaðir. Brynjúlfur Jónsson described the Sámsstaðir site fairly accurately