Iceland

To give an example, one of the proxy-based studies, published last year, uses sediment collected from the seafloor to the south of Iceland, and the microscopic organisms it contains, to detect a shifting of water types over time.

Few places on Earth are as hot as the Krafla caldera in Iceland, an enormous volcanic crater where magma was discovered at surprisingly shallow depths.

“We do not have to worry about this virus variant and we should not ban people from flying from the UK or other countries,” Kári Stefánsson, CEO of DeCode Genetics, told Iceland’s RÚV News Agency.

I might even pick up some needles and try making my own with one of the kits and patterns sold online by knitters from Ireland to Iceland — ideal for creating peaceful moments in a stressful time.

Then, a decade ago, on a river in northern Iceland, he got trapped beneath a waterfall and nearly drowned, washing up half a mile downstream.

Nowadays Iceland and its Nordic neighbours are more trendy than ever.

The landscape here, like all of Iceland, has a primeval majesty.

Iceland has more writers and publishes more books per capita than any other country in the world.

“For us in Iceland this is not a very interesting question,” President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson says.

From the wild weather to the harsh landscape, Iceland has its fair share of mystifying phenomena.

Great eruption of the Scaptar Jokul, in Iceland, commenced, and continued several days (see 18th).

Now King Harald bade a warlock betake him to Iceland in one or other guise, that he might bring him back tidings of the country.

Thangbrand abode three winters in Iceland, and was the slayer of three men or ever he departed thence.

Now the King lent an ear to these speeches, and all the men of Iceland who were there were baptized.

The sons of many mighty men of Iceland are here present, & their fathers will, we trow, lend their aid in this matter.