Around 1900, Iceland had about 6,000 baer —or farms—and a total of up to 100,000 individual turf structures. By the 1930s, though, official figures put that count at 3,665 baer.

"Turf farms and homes were in every part of Iceland and have been the prevailing building method for generations," Hannes Lárusson, founder of the Islenski Baerinn (Turf House Museum) in ...

Iceland is also a stage for the Northern Lights and this year is a solar maximum, the period of greatest solar activity within a solar cycle (each cycle lasts about 11 years), which means more ...

Icelandic turf farms have been typically known to be clusters having two to 30 turf houses that are connected by earthen corridors, a type of structure known as a baer.

In 1910, there were around 5,500 turf homes of these rustic and basic farmsteads in Iceland, accounting for more than half of all residences, according to historians.

Here you will see one of the country's most famous turf houses at Laufas. Built in a traditional Icelandic style of stone and turf, it is one of the last turf farms in Iceland.

Here you will see one of the country's most famous turf houses at Laufas. Built in a traditional Icelandic style of stone and turf, it is one of the last turf farms in Iceland.

We're headed back to Deplar Farm, a 12-room lodge that Eleven opened last spring on Iceland's Troll Peninsula, a 90-minute drive along a coastal road from the city of Akureyri.

The reconstructed medieval farm in Þjórsárdalur and the development of the Icelandic turf house / by Guðmundur Ólafsson and Hörður Ágústsson ; [English translation, Keneva Kunz] Smithsonian ...

Happening upon a turf house, or torfbæir as they’re called in Icelandic, is a fun surprise. The origins of the wooden house structures date all the way back to the first Norse settlements in 870.