535C - Garden Parks II - Skallagrímsgarður

Skallagrímsgarður is the garden park of the town of Borgarnes. The Youth Society Skallagrímur and the Borgarnes Women‘s Society started work on the garden. In 1938 the women took over this work in 1938 and few years ago they presented the Borgarnes Community with the garden. The burial mound of Skallagrímur, an ancient Saga figure, is in the garden along with the sculpture „The Raven of Odin“ by Ásmund Sveinsson.