I visited my Icelandic family friend Thor in his 60s. His family were infulencial he knows alot...A British very rich Lord wanted to buy it and the Icelandic farmer agreed. That is when the farmers daughter went to the highest outcrop overlooking the falls and told her father if he sold the land and waterfall she would kill herself and jump. It wasn't sold. Thor believes she saved the nation, as it is now law cannot be sold to foreigners or another nation