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Right. There is really no doubt that this is the family as you had said they moved to Nova Scotia and the Markland settlement is really the only candidate there in the 1870s.
The problem with identifying them here in Iceland was that Guðmundur Guðmundsson is a very common name - there were 58 emigrants with that name, and many, many more who lived in Iceland - and quite a few who were married to a woman named Sigríður. This particular family is however the only one where the names match, as well as the emigration dates - other Guðmundur/Sigríður couples emigrated later.
So, now that the couple in question has been identified, here is some information from the database:
Guðmundur was born July 23rd 1844, the son of Guðmundur Þorleifsson (1809-1864) and his wife, Ragnheiður Magnúsdóttir, b. 1809) who lived at Mánaskál in Höskuldsstaða-parish. Guðmundur Þorleifsson was the son of Þorleifur "the rich" Þorleifsson and Ingibjörg Guðmundsdóttir in Stóridalur, Svinavatn-parish. Ragnheiður was the daughter of Magnús Magnússon (priest at Hvammur and later Glaumbær) and Sigríður Halldórsdóttir Their ancestry is easy to trace a long way back.
Sigríður Guðmundsdóttir was born September 3rd 1841, the daughter of Guðmundur Ólafsson (1814-1859) and his wife Margrét Jónsdóttir (1818-1865). Guðmundur was the son of
Ólafur Jónsson and Sigríður Guðmundsdóttir, but Margrét was the daughter of Jón Illugason and Ástríður Þorláksdóttir.
Sources for the above include various church records in Húnavatnssýsla and Skafjarðarsýsla, the books "Ættir Austur-Húnvetninga" and "Skagfirzkar Æviskrár", the censuses of 1801, 1816, 1845, 1860, 1870 etc. and the genealogy manuscript of Jón Espólín.
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