Eyrarbakki

Suðurland · Island · Urban site

Skerflóðs-Móri, a beggar boy who drowned in the disaster year of 1783, dogged travellers at dusk around Eyrarbakki for over a century.

Eyrarbakki is an old trading village on Iceland's south coast, haunted for centuries by the district's most infamous ghost. According to legend, Móri was a vagrant boy fleeing the famine that followed the Laki eruptions of 1783; refused shelter, he drowned in the Skerflóð channel – and returned as Skerflóðs-Móri to torment the wealthy farmer Þorleifur of Háeyri and his kin. Generation after generation, travellers on the road between Eyrarbakki and Stokkseyri told of a grey figure that appeared at dusk, spooked horses and led people astray. Together with the female ghost Skotta, Móri was even said to have caused the death of Tómas of Norðurkot one Christmas night. The village, with its preserved nineteenth-century houses, still tells the tales of its Móri today.

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Where is Eyrarbakki located?

Eyrarbakki is in Suðurland, Island.

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