Hverahild
- Location
- Hverahild, Southwest Iceland, Iceland
- Water type
- sulfurous
- Temperature
- 35 °C
- pH
- 6.5
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Rich in active gases or metals — a strong mineral character.
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Hverahild is a sulphurous geothermal spring or shelter associated with a hot spring field in Iceland, its name combining 'hver' (hot spring) with 'hild' (a name element meaning battle or shelter) to suggest a place where geothermal activity was significant enough to serve as a landmark or gathering point. Iceland's naming tradition draws on both functional and poetic registers, and Hverahild represents the intersection of geological description and human memory in the Icelandic landscape. The spring's warm, sulphurous water carries the characteristic mineral richness of Iceland's most volcanically active geothermal zones.