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Burial Rites Private Tour: A young girl was living in Sauðárkrókur in Skagafjörður. She was an exchange student from Australia. She heard the story of the last execution that took place in Iceland in 1830. Hannah Kent wrote her first novel about the events that ultimately led to the beheading of two young people for the murder of Natan Ketilsson and another man. The story became a bestseller. The rights to make a movie based on the book were bought by Jennifer Lawrence and she will play the lead role.

The tour takes us back through curtains of time to the last execution that took place in Iceland, on a cold January(12.th) day in the year 1830.  Agnes Magnusdottir & Fridrik Sigurdsson were the last people to be executed in Iceland. The saga of Agnes and her last days will be our topic and we see some of the sites where the events of the story took place. 

The tour starts from Reykjavik and we head North-West, towards the small peninsula Vatnsnes.

On the way we pass through the small town of Hvammstangi on our way to the location where the remains of the farm, Illugastadir, are still standing.

We visualize how the farm must have been in the past. We try to put our selves in the shoes of Agnes.

How difficult it must have been for her to realize that she had been misled. How angry & jealous she must have been.

We also visit the grave of Agnes & Fridrik and the location of the execution. While driving we discuss Burial Rites and the history of Iceland and the society in the 19.th century.