In the westernmost corner of Iceland's Snæfellsnes peninsula, at the foot of the Snæfellsjökull volcano, lies the concrete skeleton of the abandoned farm Dagverðará.
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When new roads were mapped out in Iceland in the late 1940s, it made for much better accessibility to Krýsuvík, a region full of geothermal fields and a dreamed agricultural area with vast fields where sheep had been herded for centuries.
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