Viðey is the largest island in Kollafjörður, about 1,7 square km. The cemetery is to the north-west of the church and is the resting place of many people of national importance, among them Ólafur Stephensen, stiftmaður (the highest representative of the Danish king in Iceland), and his son Magnús Stephensen, konferensráð (a public official given his honorary title by the king).
More recent personalities also rest here, such as Gunnar Gunnarsson, writer and poet, his wife Franciska Gunnarsson, and their son Gunnar Gunnarsson, a colourist.
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