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Visit Illugastaðir, Iceland
All that remains of Natan Ketilsson's famous workshop at Illugastaðir, the site of the murders. This workshop, noticeably built on the land lying a little out to sea, famously had its window facing inland rather than out to the view.
The last application of capital punishment in Iceland took place on January 12, 1830, in Vatnsdalshólar in Húnavatnssýsla. The convicts were Agnes Magnúsdóttir, a farmhand, and Friðrik Sigurðsson, a farmer's son from Katadalur. Their crime was the murder of two men on March 14, 1828: Natan Ketilsson, a farmer of Illugastaðir, and Pétur Jónsson of the "Geitaskarð" farm. They were executed by beheading.
Agnes Magnusdottír’s grave is in Tjörn churchyard.
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