The museum shows 17 exhibits from the Icelandic sagas.

1. Iceland in the making
2. Papar
- The First Inhabitants
3. Hrafna-Flóki - The Exodus from Norway
4. Ingólfu Arnarson - The First Icelander
5. Skalla-Grímur og Egill - True Icelanders?
6. Celts in Iceland - Melkorka Mýrkjartansdóttir
7. Leifur heppni - Vinland
8. Freydís Eiríksdóttir - Heroine or Ogress?
9. Þorbjörg lítilvölva - Can she see the future?

10. The Conversion to Christianity in 1000 AD
11. The Alþingi
12. Guðmundur góði
Benefactor of the People
13. Snorri Sturluson - A Poet and a Politician
14. The Battle at Örlygsstaðir - A turningpoint in the powerstruggle
15. The black death
16. The first Icelandic martyr
- Sister Katrin
17. The Reformation - Jón Arason and his sons beheaded
00. The Shop at the museum


It is a real adventure to go through the museum and see these moments in the Icelandic history. The figures are so life-like it is almost as you have been sent back in time and you are alowed to experience the people frosen in a moment in theyr life. The exhibits are from the time when the first people set foot in Iceland to the time when the Icelandic people changed to Luthern cristianity.

OVERVIEW OF
THE TANK IN PERLAN
















Íslenska

Saga Design




Orkuveitan
Here you can
find out more
about Perlan
and the hot
water tanks