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This waterfall is closely connected with one of the most important event in Icelandic history, the conversion to Christianity from heathendom or “the old custom” in the year 1000. Despite being a heathen priest himself, Þorgeir Þorkelsson decided that all of Iceland should be Christian, as is famously recorded in the Sagas. Legend has it that, once he returned back to his village from this historic summit, where they decided to convert to Christianity, he dispensed of his heathen gods by throwing them into the falls in a symbolic act of the conversion. This, according to the legend, is how Goðafoss got its name.
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