Eldur í Húnaþingí
Known informally as the Great Seal Count, this beloved North Iceland village festival in tiny Hvammstangi on the Vatnsnes seal-watching peninsula combines music, food and local coastal traditions in one of Iceland's most under-visited fjord communities.
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"The remote Melrakkasletta peninsula hosts one of Iceland's most northerly and atmospheric sheep round-ups, where farmers and riders bring down flocks from the Arctic heathlands to the corrals for sorting and celebration."
Réttir á Melrakkasléttu
"One of the very first réttir of the Icelandic autumn, held in the remote Hrútafjörður valley where farmers and neighbours gather on horseback to sort sheep into circular stone-and-steel pens, followed by singing and brennivín."
Hrútatungurrétt
"A centuries-old community sheep sort in the sheltered Miðfjörður bay district, one of three Northwest Iceland réttir that open the national round-up season on the same September Saturday."
Miðfjarðarrétt
"The Blöndudalur valley's opening réttir brings together farmers from across this thinly populated river dale to sort their summer sheep in one of Iceland's earliest round-ups of the year."
Rugludalsrétt
"Set in the dramatic Eyjafjörður, Iceland's longest fjord, this is one of North Iceland's first réttir, where mountain-fresh sheep stream down to the valley pen as community families celebrate with traditional song."
Hraungerðisrétt
"The Skagafjörður valley gathers for the annual sheep réttir at Laufskálarétt, a century-old communal sorting of thousands of sheep in the circular wooden pens near Iceland's historic bishopric at Hólar."
Laufskálarétt (sheep réttir)