The name Daníelspyttur in remote Iceland comes from a boy who once left work and drowned in the water. Since then, people have considered the place to be haunted, as well as the entire area.
Below Gnúpafell Farm in Eyjafjörður there is flat land reaching to the bank of the Eyjafjörður River. It is called Gnúpufellsmýri and in some places there are compact pools or pits and sometimes chasms. One of these pools is called Daníelspyttur and is said to be haunted by a man who once drowned in it. .
The man's name was Daníel and he lived by the fjord. He was described as mentally ill, sometimes throwing fits of rage and then having to be monitored. One spring he worked for Ólafur Guðmundsson in Hleiðargarður. One day he was overcome with rage, he grabbed a enormous rod or some sharpened rod and started running around the field.
Ólafur asked Jón Jóhannesson to pursue Daníel. He saw that there were horses on the islands. It seemed likely to him that Daníel was planning to cross the Eyjafjörður River for some reason. Jón hurried towards the horses. There were only two of them, a good gray horse and an adult animal. The second was a mare that seemed idle and frail. Jón was about to grab the mare, but she turned around abruptly and tried to both bite and hit him. However, Snarfari's horse, which stood calmly and allowed itself to be reined without resistance, moved.
Daniel had crossed the river when Jón Jóhannesson caught up with him. When he saw that they were chasing him, he started running along the banks. He held the blade on his shoulder. Suddenly he turned sideways towards the swamp where there was one of those deep holes. He rose into the air and jumped into the abyss, then immediately disappeared under the water's surface.
When Jón arrived at the shore, Daniel shot to the surface for the first time, but it was too tardy and he drowned, his body sinking and disappearing. Since then it has been called Daníelspyttur and is believed to be haunted, as is the area around Gnúpufell. They say that sometimes they see him here and there wandering with a spear.
Others who had fallen into the water were also seen rising to the surface, as Daniel had done, three times before they too drowned, almost as something was pulling them down.
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Daníelspyttur and the boy who drowned and haunts
The name Daníelspyttur in remote Iceland comes from a boy who once left work and drowned in the water. Since then, people have considered the place to be haunted, as well as the entire area.
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