The flagpole at the front of a house, just a three-minute drive from the handful of shops and restaurants, has become an advertisement for the exploits of Heimaey's most famous son.
There's no magic like county final magic. Great global sporting battles were fought last week. There was a baseball World Series and a women's cricket World Cup, the Premier League, Bundesliga and Serie A thundered on, world titles were won in cycling, gymnastics and taekwondo.
VIENNA, Virginia Vienna is a town of about 17,000 people in high-density Fairfax County, which has a population of just more than 1 million and is just west of the nation's capital. It is about 10 miles from the baseball field at James Madison High in Vienna to the White House in Washington, a city that was without a Major League Baseball team from 1972 until the Nationals came to town in 2005.