The Skógafoss is a 60 meter high and 25 meter wide waterfall in the south of Iceland not far from the town of Skógar. The Skógá River now flows there over the edge of a cliff of the former Icelandic coastline. After the coastline retreated after the last ice age due to the rise of Iceland (it is now at a distance of about 5 km), the cliffs were left behind and now form the boundary between the lowlands and the highlands over many kilometres together with the mountains behind them.
The story goes that Þrasi Þórólfsson, one of the settlers of Iceland, hid a chest of gold behind the waterfall.
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