Episode 3080
Þingeyrar
Thu, 2025-Oct-09 00:57 UTC
Length - 1:53
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Welcome to random Wiki of the Day, your journey through Wikipedia's vast and varied content, one random article at a time.
The random article for Thursday, 9 October 2025, is Þingeyrar.
Þingeyrar (Thingøre in some older texts) is a farm in Iceland's Northwestern Region. It lies adjacent to the sandy coastal plain of Þingeyrasandur (or Thingøresand), between the Skagi and Vatnsnes peninsulas and just northeast of lake Hóp. Þingeyrar was formerly the location of the famous convent Þingeyraklaustur (1133–1551). It is also the site of Iceland's first stone church, Þingeyrakirkja.
Icelandic scholar and politician Björn M. Ólsen (1850–1919) was born in Þingeyrar. Bjarni Halldórsson (c. 1703–1773), an Icelandic legal figure and theologian, spent most of his life in Þingeyrar.
One of the earliest recorded giant squid (Architeuthis dux) specimens was found washed ashore on Þingeyrasandur in 1639.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:57 UTC on Thursday, 9 October 2025.
For the full current version of the article, see Þingeyrar on Wikipedia.
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