Famous Icelandic painter Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval was born in Bakkagerði, a village in Borgarfjörður eystri. In 1914 when he was broke and starving he was asked to paint an altarpiece for the local church. He chose the sermon of the mount and set it in Bakkagerði with Christ standing on Àlfaborg (a rock that is said to be the home of elf queen Borghildur and her people), with the Dyrfjöll mountains as a backdrop and village people and hidden people (elves) listening. The bishop refused to consecrate the "heathen" painting;-)

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