 The front half of Hellnahellir, the area closest to the barn was used for a long time to store hay in the winter.The other half was at the same time full of loose sand, so much of it that there was only about enough space for a person to crawl between the sand and the ceiling – if in fact anyone had the unlikely urge or the nerve to be crawling about in such a confined and dark place.The sand was finally removed from this end of the cave in the years around 1950, leaving the cave in about the same state it is now.