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
When Hekla moves to Reykjavik at 21, she is already reading “Ulysses,” even though her English is “poor,” as she admits.
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
In this remotest corner of the world the ancestral spirit was preserved like the glowing embers of Hekla beneath the snow and ice of the glacier.
From The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Anderson, Rasmus Björn
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