- Many of the skeletons in the cemetery are well-preserved. They provide evidence of the health status and living conditions of Iceland’s early settlers. One skeleton appears to be that of a homicide victim.
- This middle aged man’s skull exhibits massive cranial trauma caused by an axe blows. One to the side of the head that would have resulted massive bleeding and brain damage. A second blade wound to the back of the head that would have insured rapid death.
| |  One of the burials from Hrísbrú

The Hrísbrú Graveyard
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