Icelanders used to believe that the first person to be buried in a new cemetery would become its "guardian." That person's body would not rot, but serve to watch over those arriving later. In this case it was Guðrún Oddsdóttir, the latter wife of the magistrate Þórður Jónassen.
Icelanders used to believe that the first person to be buried in a new cemetery would become its "guardian." That person's body would not rot, but serve to watch over those arriving later. In this case it was Guðrún Oddsdóttir, the latter wife of the magistrate Þórður Jónassen.
