Laufskalavarða - "Pick up a stone on your way in"

Laufskalavarða - magic of many stones. 
Every traveller who passed for the first time was supposed to build a cairn for good luck. An information board is located by the cairns.

According the tradition, there was a large farm known as Laufskalar on about this site, but it was destroyed in the year 894 in the first recorded eruption of the volcano Katla. The neighbouring farm was Dynskógar, home of the settler Hrafn hafnarlykill, and the region was known as Dynskógahverfi. Sources state that there were 24 doors on iron hinges at Laufskalar. The lava mound, which is known as "Laufskalar Cairn", was named after the farm. Everyone passing by it for the first time was supposed to add a stone to bring him good luck on his journey. The Public Roads Administration has moved a supply of stones to the site to enable modern travellers across Myrdalssandur to continue this tradition.

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