Eruption beneath Eyjafjallajokull glacier • 2 • image
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Well, things are heating up at home. A volcano beneath the Eyjafjallajokull glacier erupted around midnight Saturday. The southern coast, where the glacier is located, is beautiful country, even when the earth is splitting open and belching fire. But I prefer a less violent Nature: the sea, the waves lapping against the pebble beach, the wind whispering over the ice …
The eruption reminds me of an imagined legend. The trolls that live under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier believe that when a man from across the sea comes to our country and is able to pronounce “Eyjafjallajokull” perfectly seven times in rapid succession, the earth will open up and Iceland will return to the waters, never to be seen again. Our language, in the trolls’ view, is part of the national defence system:-) But against plate tectonics there can be no defence!
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Tee hee hee. Love the troll story. That is an excellent one. Language versus tectonic or troll plates! eva
Eva, thankyou! i should say, in lowercase:-), that i enjoy your very poetic and sassy blog. also the image at the top of your pages. re images, here is something i found that you may enjoy: camille’s sketchbook.
– hh
Thanks so much. I have not been through your whole blog yet–hardly have time to keep up with mine–how is america treating you? I was in iceland with some friends last summer and I miss it, but maybe like a tourist. do YOU? love the blog you sent me. scarey how you can figure out a person thru a blog! eva
America is treating me very well, thank you! The stereotype of an open, friendly people is correct. Very different from what one sees-hears in political life here, with all the shouting and ugliness.. An interesting dichotomy, hard to understand. I do miss home. Iceland is a beautiful country … though to a some extent, the bare mountains, for instance … its not-quite-earthly landscapes are the result of ancient environmental disasters. HH