Hólmfríður Sigurðardóttir

(January 9, 1617 – April 25, 1692) was the wife of a provost in , Iceland during the 17th century. Her parents were of Hróarsholt in Flói (son of Bishop Oddur Einarsson) and his wife ("the rich") Jónsdóttir. drowned the same year that was born; her mother remarried to Magnús Arason, sýslumaður of Reykhólar, and she raised there.

Family In 1636, married the provost of , Jón Arason, who was the younger brother of her stepfather Magnús. They lived in until Jón died in 1673. She then moved to Hólar where her daughter lived and later to Laufás where her daughter Helga lived. Oddur ("the stout"), the manager of the Reynistaður Abbey Anna ("the stout"), the wife of a priest in in Vesturhóp Ari, a farmer in Sakka in Svarfaðardalur valley.

Legacy Jón Ólafsson of Grunnavík said the following of : "She was the type of person to, as the story goes, have someone fetch gold dye from abraod for her hairgold, it is said. And some maid bathed her if she was at all dirtied and she was the type to say, when she first found herself pregnant: 'Should I then have to say: ow?' For these people, haughtiness is so named."

A painting of that is believed to have been commissioned by Helga to memorialize her mother is preserved in the Laufás church.