It is also notable that Leif Ericson who discovered Vinland or America long before the time of Christopher Columbus grew up in Dalasýsla.
He was married to Hallgerðr Höskuldsdóttir of Höskuldsstaðir in Laxárdal in Dalasýsla, who was known as Hallgerðr langbrók ("Hallgerður longpants").