The floor is composed of stone slabs, probably covering a hot spring, for they are very warm.

The person wishing to use this bath betakes himself to this room, and carefully closes every cranny; a suffocating heat, which induces violent perspiration over the whole frame, is thus generated.

The people, however, seldom avail themselves of this bath.
On my return I had still to visit a basin with a jet of water, in a fine meadow near the church; a low wall of stone has been erected round this spring to prevent the cattle from scalding themselves if they should approach too near in the ardour of grazing.

Some eighty paces off is to be seen the wool-bath erected by Snorri Sturluson.

It consists of a stone basin three or four feet in depth, and eighteen or twenty in diameter.