North of Hafnarfjordur town, and just across the Skerjafjordur fjord, is a modest group of white, red-roofed buildings that many are surprised to find are actually Bessastadir, the official residence of the president of Iceland. Bessastadir has been the presidential residence since 1941, but the site has a much older history, having been mentioned in the Islendinga Saga (Saga of the Icelanders) when the great writer Snorri Sturluson had a farm here in the 13th century.