The three main characters from Næturvaktin, Georg Bjarnfreðarson (Jón Gnarr), Ólafur Ragnar (Pétur Jóhann Sigfússon) and Daníel (Jörundur Ragnarsson), all return to work at a hotel in the sparsely populated Westfjords (near Reykhólar).
of a poor Icelander from the Westfjords, the harshest region of the country, who decides to take a polar bear as a present to Sweyn II of Denmark (reigned 1047-74/76, a.k.a. Sveinn Úlfsson).
The county includes a non-human habitat zone, called Hornstrandir, which is also the most northern point of the Westfjords region.