Árbók Hins íslenzka fornleifafélags - 01.01.1984, Blaðsíða 177

HELLAMYNDIR JÓHANNESAR S. KJARVALS
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SUMMARY
The cave drawings of Jóhanncs S. Kjarval.
In Árbók Hins íslenska fornleifafélags 1982 wc publishcd an article on man made caves
in Ás farm, Ásahrcppur parish. Therc was mentioncd that the “giant" of Icelandic paint-
crs, Jóhanncs S. Kjarval, once came to Ás and made some pictures of the old Barn-cave
thcrc (fig. 1). Thcse drawings scem to bc lost and the cave itsclf was destroyed decades
ago.
However this article lcd to thc discovery of old glass plate negatives of 35 sheets with
drawings by Kjarval. All thcse drawings are from man made cavcs in Rangárvallasýsla,
Southcrn Iceland. 21 sheets are from thc lost Barn-cave at Ás, 10 are from the well known
caves at Ægissíða and 4 from the ancient cavc at Árbæjarhcllir.
Thc owner of the glass plates was the well known poet Einar Bcnediktsson. He took
great interest in history and wrote a book on the prehistorical times of Iceland, the land
of the midnight sun, Thule, and thc scttlcment of thc Irish herrnit ntonks called “papar".
Einar’s theory was that the “papar" had niade many of the ancient caves of South Iceland
for thcir recluse life. On the walls of the caves thc poet found signs and pictures which