Hekla
Americannoun
noun
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The film’s tour de force is that showdown at the base of Iceland’s Hekla volcano.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
The towering cone of Hekla in the south is closer to the mantle hotspot, whereas the strings of small craters and fissures now forming in Reykjanes’s volcanic systems are where the plate boundary comes onshore.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 24, 2022
Jon John and Hekla do not stay in Iceland — Jon John feels that doing so would kill him.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2020
The road skirted west and north of Hekla, a volcano that last erupted in 2000 and that a thousand years ago was known in Europe as the Gateway to Hell.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 9, 2015
And he had earth heaped thickly upon them, and a huge black block of stone which had once been thrown out of Hekla rolled thereon.
From Saga of Halfred the Sigskald A Northern Tale of the Tenth Century by Felix Dahn
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