Gunnar Tryggvason was born in 1962 in Suður Bár/ Snæfellsnesi. Gunnar has studied agricultural economics in the School of Agriculture at Hvanneyri and is a member of the Icelandic training association  FT. In the summer he leads the rides, cares for the horses and makes hay for the winter. In the winter months, he holds the farm and house in shape and can do (almost) everything himself.Then he prepares our young horses, provides breeding horses for tests and smaller tournaments and takes the horses out for a ride. On the photo, Gunnar is riding our elite broodmare Kviða frá Brimilsvöllum.

 

 

 

 

Veronica Osterhammer, born in 1973 in Traunstein / Bayern. She has been living in Iceland since 1994.  Veronica has studied singing, she works in the winter as a music teacher at the local elementary school, as a singer and leads in Ólafsvík the church choir and supervises the children's choir. She also takes care of the requests of our guests for the summer season. In summer she mainly takes care of the physical well-being of our guests, once a week she drives the fully loaded VW bus to Reykjavik and back and guides a sightseing tour around the Glacier. The stallion in the photo is a son of Kviða, Kári (see above).

 

 

 

Fanney our daughter was born in 1999 and is in sixth grade. Her horse is Mósi but at our club tournament in the summer of 2010 she made with Snót the third place. Fanney rides and reads and plays the piano very well.

 

 

 

 

Benedict was born in 2003, he goes to second class in school and prefers playing with Lego, cars and outdoors, ...he can paint very nice pictures and play piano. This car he built himself with daddy's help. Benedict's horse is Fengur, Fanney and Benedict grow up bilingual and speak both German and Icelandic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ari was born in October 2010. He is the youngest family member in Brimilsvellir. He is very like his siblings and likes to eat!

 

 

 

 

 

 

„Our girls“ over the summer months, hard-working assistants from Germany are helping us to work more actively . On the photo are Mary and Sabine who were with us in the summer of 2005.

 

 

 

 

Leo makes sure that around Brimilsvellir, one never sees a live mouse. Otherwise, he sleeps a lot and is an absolute cuddle-tiger!

 

 

 

Besides our horses, we still have a small, colorful flock of sheep, to the right: Mjallhvitt (translated Snow-white)