Flugumýri

Flugumýri has, as a rule, been home to a large farm and various chieftains have lived there. During the Age of the Sturlungs, Flugumýri was one of the Ásbirningar family clan's estates, and Kolbeinn ungi ("the young") Arnórsson lived there from 1233 until he died in 1245. His widow gave the land to the Hólar diocese, but Gissur Þorvaldsson bought it from them, settled there in spring 1253, and built a large farm there. He got good use out of it, albeit not for long because on October 22, after the wedding feast for Gissur and Ingibjörg Sturludóttir's son Hallur, Gissur's enemies arrived in Flugumýri and tried to lock him inside the farm and burn it down. This event, known as the Flugumýri arson, is the most well known in Flugumýri's history.^[3]

In 1360, the Hólar diocese reacquired the land when Bishop Jón skalli ("the bald") Eiríksson bought it, and the diocese owned the land until the turn of the 19th century when the farms were sold.^[4] In centuries past, the Hólar diocese's priests typically held their annual meetings in Flugumýri.^[5]

The town was a medical center in the early 19th century, when the region's doctor, Ari Arason, lived there.^[6] The Skagafjörður Women's School (Kvennaskóli Skagfirðinga) was in Flugumýri from 1880 to 1882, before it was closed down. The school had previously been in Hjaltastaðir from 1878 to 1880 and, before that, was in Ási in Hegranes in 1877, where it was founded.^[7]

Now there is a large horse farm in Flugumýri and a tourist services operate out of the town.^[8]