Wednesday, April 11, 2012

The name Eyjafjallajökull


Eyjafjallajökull is a mountain glacier in Iceland. It is pretty hard for foreign people to pronounce that name, but Eyja means island and fjalla means mountain and jökull means glacier of ice cap. So in English it would be the “Islands’Mountains’Ice Cap”.  We have few glaciers in Iceland, but Eyjafjallajökull is one of the smallest ones. Eyjafjallajökull is situated in the south of Iceland and north of Skógar, which means in English forest, and west of Mýrdalsjökull, which is another glacier.