Braedratunga is a manor and a church site on the tongue of land between the rivers Hvita and Tungufljot in the Southwestern Lowlands.

Its documentation and records of its occupants and of everyday life in the past are among the primary sources for of the Halldor Kiljan Laxnes’ novel “The Iceland Bell.” Laxnes is Iceland’s Nobel Prize Winner for literature and this novel is probably his most popular and widely read work domestically and elsewhere.