See Pverá Turf House, Laxárdalur, Iceland

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Þverá in Laxárdalur is a turf farm, consisting of a dwelling house and outbuildings. The farm is situated in the Laxárdalur valley in Northern Iceland, by the Laxá salmon fishing river and on the edge of the lava fields of Aðaldalshraun. The farmstead is still inhabited and was modernized in the 1960´s with new dwelling houses and stables that are located a short distance from the old turf houses. The house is a part of the National Museum's Historic Buildings Collection. Laxárdalur is today a thinly populated area and no longer a thoroughfare. The turf farm can be dated mainly to the latter half of the 19thcentury. It is mentioned in the medieval Saga literature. The farm at Þverá is a cluster of nine houses and is around 23 m long and 29 m wide. Four of the farm's houses face the yard to the east, forming a gabled farmhouse, two living rooms on either side of the entrance and a smithy to the north. The entrance gives access to the passageway leading to thebaðstofaat the end, which is divided into three rooms by a timber partition. A pantry and a hearth kitchen are linked to the passageway and gives way to another passage to the cowshed and interior well. To the south of the farm is a storage house and outhouses are within the stonewall marking the field nearest to the farm. A cabbage patch is located in front of the farm and Þverár church is to the southeast of the farmstead. The walls are made from lava rocks. The rooftops are packed with dwarf-birch and covered with turf. Þverá is an excellent example of a large northern turf farm, built with outstanding craftmanship. It highlights the ingenuity employed by its habitants, for instance in chanelling the local creek into the house for ease of access to water and for use as a cool storage.

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