1:10 thats a big juuuuup. we have already been there for over a thousand years, should be busyness as usual for us :) you are not getting on well with the names, sorry to say. you try, that is more important i think.
I've been watching Iceland for a number of years. The thing I NEVER hear anybody say is this. If something comes UP (lava), something else must eventually go down to fill the gap. Think about it.
If you ever have to pronounce Fagradalsfjall again, try to end with a t͡ɬ -- a clicky "TL" sound, like in 'Nahuatl'. If you find that noise tricky, go with a confident "fah-grah-dahs-f'yahd" followed IMMEDIATELY by a word beginning with an L and you'll sound like a native speaker. Analyzing the way I mutilate words when talking fast and informally, it actually comes out more like "far ah das f'yatl". Vestmannaeyjar sounds like "ves munny yar" Reykjavík becomes "rake ya week", Keflavík gets mushed into "keb like", and Grindavík sounds like "grin dike". It's easier if you're a little drunk.
Icelander here. I was taking a geology course as the volcanoes started going off again and the teacher was so giddy with every earthquake. we went on so many field trips to both old and new lava fields to connect the study materials to something physical. the year before they went off she even told us that they should be going off soon and one year later Reykjanes was on fire.
Who was your teacher? An Icelander here myself. I took geology lessons at Endurmennt about 10 years ago with Ármann Höskuldsson. At the time the ground at Móhálsadalur / Vigdísarvellir was rising. This was in October I think and Ármann was "convinced" that it would start erupting in that place before Christmas that year. hahaha. "Það mun gjósa hérna fyrir jól"... hehe
@GabrielLyons-i5r Thanks. I was wondering. I came across a cobblestone made of an unusual pinkish granite with white (plagioclase) porphyroblasts a few weeks ago at the local Natural History Society rooms (as one does), and after identifying it (Mountsorrel, Leicestershire) rather followed a rabbit hole to end up installing a Minecraft-a-like. I can't say I understood the game. Uninstalled it after an hour. Is there a point to it?
For us volcanoes are not this dangerous monster that might come eat us, its a way of life. It just is. In 1973 my parents fled our hometown of Vestmannaeyjar because the island erupted. A few months later they moved back. And got on with life. In the late 90's i could see the new volcano out of my classroom window. When it was cold outside you could see smoke rising from it because it was still warm. When you have that kind of view your whole life, you learn to respect and live with the nature around you. Its kind of exciting how the whole world seems to look towards our little nation in the past few years.
In 1978 we flew with Air Icelandic, from Luxemburg to New York (and made the 3-day stopover on Iceland). Approaching Reykjavik my dad was invited into the cockpit, where the pilots pointed out Surtsey. Unforgettable!
You and your fellow Icelanders coexist with your fiery land just like Japan does with their earthquakes. It's the resilience and preparedness of both nations that's probably admired.
Sort of like living in Australia, I guess. No active volcanoes, but bushfires and snakes and spiders and heat waves that can all kill with very little warning. You definitely need to respect it, but within respecting it you get on with your life.
Hello i am a plumber from Grindavík í have been working with the earthquakes and lava and yes it has been a problem but what most people don't know is that the towns West part rose 1.5 meters and that has been our biggest problem where hot and cold water + electricity lines get ripped apart and the earth is not done yet as every week we notice new cracks or old cracks expanding My work is very fun but can be difficult at times but we stife for safety in the town and hopefully Grindavík can be rebuild to its former glory Please ask any questions if you have some ❤
I was in Grindavik last week, very nice soup in the harbour cafe. But not many people. Our guide explained how the lava stopped but it was the flexing of the ground that made the town uninhabitable (for now).
Would it help to build larger underground tubes - like say a metre or more in diameter, and run the water pipes and electricity cables inside those? Then when the ground moves you have up to a metre or so of movement before there is any pressure on the pipes/cables themselves. Or is that just not practical?
Humans being impressive would be not building your town/city in the direct path of known volcanic activity.....but then there's Icelandic people who do that anyway and then get shocked when the lava starts flowing and burning buildings down lol..."how did that ever happen!?" When the evidence is right in front of their faces.
@DanH-nk1myyou realize this chain of events is technically the first time modern humans with any real grasp of technology had encountered this right? Before now there’s only been essentially folklore about this…..
Gylfi is the person who introduced me to Icelandic volcanism with the viral Grindavik video and I watched all subsequent Sundhnúkur eruptions on his channel :) he's awesome and I can't recommend him enough!
I wish i could visit Iceland someday, if my finances allowed. you guys have such a wonderfull nature around you. Also i always hear that the Icelandic folk is one of the nicest one can meet
I have a bit of the initial 2021 eruption on a shelf above my computer. A former co-worker visited Iceland during the late stages of that eruption, and brought back a small chunk of pillow lava for me. We both have geology degrees, so that was not an odd gift at all.
And Icelandic geology guy here (don't have a degree though). how did pillow lava manage to form during any of these eruptions in the Reykjanes peninsula? None of them erupted near water. All of them were pretty much fissure eruptions (concentrating into a few cones in later stages). Also, none of the eruptions so far has reached the sea and the peninsule has no above ground rivers or lakes, The ground is too porous.
@ThorsteinnK There have been eruptions just off the coast that result in pillow lavas. Not sure how the pillows would have ended up where you can pick up a piece.
@ThorsteinnK My geologic terminology is seriously lacking, in part because it's been over 40 years since those college days, and we didn't spend much time on igneous rocks. The piece i had is a small, rounded blob that would have popped out of the side crust of a larger flow of ropey lava. I'm not going to try and spell the Hawaiian word.
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@AstrumEarth Remembering that there is a small (but a long way from zero) contingent of geologists who are *very dubious about the reality or nature of mantle plumes. Then there are others who accept the idea that plumes exist, but originate at the 400~600 mantle velocity discontinuity, and are really a near-surface phenomenon. And the equally vocal contingent who insist that they've *got* to originate at the core-mantle boundary, 3000+km down. Get two groups of them in a bar at a conference, and it's going to get ugly. Hammers at dawn. Quite controversial things mantle plumes.
On the 10 of November 2023 my daughter was in Grindavìk when her house fell 1 meter as the ground gave way underneath. That experience was not pleasant to say the least. Nobody was hurt in all of this but the nervous system was severely affected. Thank you for the video well done
@destrierofdark_ It went well because all the ground in a large area were her house was, fell evenly. But when getting out off Grindavìk they had to look out for cracks in the road.
🇮🇸 I thought you did rather well. Would not be much fun if everyone could pronounce Icelandic well. More importantly you're facts and the final image of our situation seemed quite accurate and I even learned a few things myself. ❤😊
Hey, Icelandic isn't that har after all. Use any Scandinavian language, develop a lisp and end every word possible with -ur. Jokes aside, i really enjoyed visiting Iceland. Extremely nice people and exceptionally stunning surroundings. (Also extremely expensive though).
@destrierofdark_ I would love to hear you pronounce Mandarin or Zulu names based on interviewing Chinese or South African people in English. It would be very amusing, because language-learning doesn’t work that way. If you weren’t such a relentlessly unpleasant person to deal with, you might have enough conversational experience to understand this.
We have volcanic activity on Hawaii. For the first time in my 30 years, we got rocks, ash and Peles hair falling on us. It usually goes south or out to sea. We have had too many close calls of late.
@Kamehaiku oh... i see. that is funny. smoked and puffin'. right... so, the small, lovely bird. We also tried it, smoked. Like salmon. But Puffin. It's eaten there as is the Deep Sea Greenland shark. Huh! I coulda sworn I saw about eating shark here... that's what I was responding to.
It was very impressive to see the workers in action to protect Grindavik and Svartsengi/Blue Lagoon. They will fight for every energy line, every road, every house, I guess. One of the stunning achievements is the building of new roads over hot lava. I mean really hot, it's wise to never stop driving or your tires will melt or burn.
Seems weird to me. They spent a lot of money on defense when they could have just denied it, said it was impossible to do anything about it, and eventually blamed immigrants.
There's another comment on this video from someone whose family and community in Grindavik was left high and dry while the government prioritized the Blue Lagoon for (what sounds like) tourism reasons
"They will fight for every energy line, every road, every house, I guess." Oh I very much doubt they'll do that. They're culturally Nordic - and they'll have assessed the risks and risk-benefit payoff *years* before the eruption started. And have an annual re-assessment of criteria of what to fight for versus what to leave to burn. Do you remember the Heimahey (sp?) eruption on the Vestmannayar Islands in about 1975? I do (and I'm not Icelandic, and wasn't even *that* interested in geology at the time ; though it may have been about the time I started to pay attention to it before going to a school where it was an optional course). It was moderately controversial, even in Britain, how the volcano fighters set up seawater pumps, built berms, fought to protect ... I forget the harbour town's name ... partly diverted the lava flow ... but let some parts of the town burn. Result : most of the town was saved ; general success after a strategic retreat. Zero, IIRC, funerals. [ Ichecked ... "Heimaey" ; Eldfell volcano ; 1973 ; one dead ; most of the building damage was from ash accumulation on roofs, which doesn't slide off like snow - an annual problem). In practical terms, the 1973 evacuation moved 5200 people ; the town's current population is 4500, which is not a bad 50 year ratio in these urbanising days.) But take-away point : they will *choose" to fight *winnable* fights. They won't defend every inch of ground and square metre of roof ; that's a dangerous waste of effort.
Surtsey? There have been around a half-dozen other born - and most of them gone - since. Surtsey was started before I was born, but was still being built after I was born. But I probably didn't hear of it until Eldfell blew a little further along the same structure in 1973. Without another eruption - and of more solid lava, not spatter - it'll be gone again by about 2100. Which is the norm for such events.
@destrierofdark_ I think the 2100 "disappear below sea level" estimate is allowing quite a lot for the *existing* solidified lava core. Getting above sea level is a hard thing for a volcanic island because the sea is pretty good at removing rock. Particularly if there is a slope for the rock to fall down.
I was in iceland not even a year ago. Everyone knows those green "EXIT" signs that mark the emergency exits in buildings right? In iceland whole TOWNS have such signs, marking the evacuating roads and routes. It was surreal to see that.
🇮🇸 An Icelander here, at 7:30 you mention that i looks like the surface of the moon. Did you know that Nasa sent all the astronauts that were applicable to go to the moon to Iceland to this moonlike landscape to train. (This is where they shot the moonlanding it was all taken in Iceland and was therefore faked, just kidding). Also I always find it funny when someone non-native tries to speak it, but you did pretty good. I must also congratulate you an atleast trying to pronounce the "Sundahnjúksgígaröðin" and the "Fagradalsfjall" since the sounds needed to pronounce those words are almost only preserved in scandinavian countries and ofcourse Iceland.
I second that. I knew very little about mantle hotspots before this video as a British man that does not live anywhere near active volcanoes, we don't generally learn much about them in education.
Eyjafjallajökull was the result of a misunderstanding. It was the 2008 financial crisis, and the banking sector was imploding. Icelandic banks were told to "SEND CASH" but there is no letter C in the Icelandic alphabet, so it printed out as "SEND ASH".
I'm Irish, we're not too far from Iceland and I remember being in school and seeing what I thought was snow falling from the sky. It was volcanic ash and one of the most magical experiences of my life. (I'm AuDHD and hyperdixate on volcanos)
@shannonmoody9893 I was stuck on an oil rig between Ireland and England for 9 days because of that. IT reached the point, between planned crew changes and needing to move new specialist personnel and their tools onto the rig (and old personnel and tools off ; limited deck space and "variable deck load" for the footings) that we were getting close to the point of using boats and crane baskets for personnel transfers. Generally we don't do crane basket transfers because the death rate is too high - under good conditions.
There was a joke at the time, when the ash was grounding most flights around Europe (and this was shortly after the Icelandic financial implosion), that the last wish of Iceland's economy was to have its ashes scattered over Europe.
Yes, I am Icelandic, and I’m actually impressed with your pronounciation. You are doing better than most foreigners. But, there had to be a but, 😂..when pronouncing Reykjavík imagine it to be spelled differently. That is, instead of Rey in the beginning, see it as Ray, that would make the beginning of the word correct. The “vík” part or rather the ‘ik’ as you probably see it, is closer to “eek”. I will have to rewatch to see if there is something else I can correct where pronounciation is concerned.
I fully agree. Compared to the usual pronunciation done by foreigners, this stands out for being recognizable. I mean it's nothing like Eyjafjallajökull where the US Air force gave it the code name E18 because they just gave up both spelling and pronouncing it.
I had some last week. Thought it was OK, didn't understand what the fuss was. But I did have a heavy cold so I couldn't smell it. Preferred smoked puffin.
I really like the effort, and most of the words were fine, your "Reykjavík" was pretty good, but Fagradalsfjall was rough but to be fair the doubble L's are imposible for outsiders to get right. and love the video hi from Iceland
Some Norwegian west coast dialects do the same thing with the LL's, saying them as "DL". Eyjafjallajökull is something like "eh-ya-fyad-la-yuh-kudl" for English speakers, IIRC. Easy!
@alexdrockhound9497 You should probably look things up before you make comments about how words are pronounced. If you go to Merriam-Webster, there are two correct pronunciations for basalt.. just because he used the one that you don't know about, does not mean he pronounced it wrong. He did in fact pronounce basalt correctly. Fun fact, because the way language works, if enough people pronounce/spell a word in a different way enough times, it becomes officially correct. That's literally how the word octopi became correct spelling. Octopus came from greek, and when you do multiples in greek, it ends in es. But because so many people incorrectly spelled it octopi for so long, it is now officially a correct spelling.
Using the viking folklore really shows how human progress really builds upon itself. Even if you don't know, document it and it may be useful later. However they had much more fun with it.
Recently back after a six month trip. I was living at Strandakirkja. I spent one morning at the eruption site; just me and a vulcanologist from the Lava Show. A magical experience.
Unsolicited random knowledge: Iceland was named by Viking Flóki after seeing ice-filled fjords during a harsh winter. Greenland was named by Erik the Red around 982 AD to make it sound attractive and lure settlers there, so basically medieval marketing lol
@destrierofdark_its one of the better feelings to be honest, just that someone picks “your video” to use is awesome. Probably means nothing for most but for me it means alot!
icelander here. at 5:05 your pronunciation of Reykjanes barely had an accent. be proud of this because ive heard MOST others on youtube say it as "wreckaness". good job
@destrierofdark_ yeah, but he's actually trying, unlike others that just say whatever bullshitthey can think of and a lot of people will believe it since no one knows anything about Iceland and that's painful, im just happy he's really trying with everything
Iceland has low temperatures all year round but jumps also ar not so big as elsewhere. Sometimes night is warmer than day. And few months ago at night Iceland was the warmest place in Europe.
I've also been in Reykjavik, in (edit) March (not May), and it was so freezing cold. Temperature minus few degrees Celsius and strong winds blowing that wind everywhere.
I remember this was so well planned I was able to watch someone live stream when the lava finally started to breach the surface somewhere along the rift and it was a crazy thing to see; I could only imagine how much crazier it'd be to experience in person. The person that filmed it had camped out near by only hours before it started and was within 5km of were it'd break the surface first in that area; that is how well they understood it. You start off with a large field with with nothing but grasses and moss, the person streaming zooms in on a patch of grass that is smoldering and smoking, a few minutes later there is a small grass fire, another few minutes after that a small fumerial opens, about 40 minutes after the stream started there was a hole of lava and fire about 1 to 2 meters across (I would assume there was a lava tube under the field and this was part of the roof melting away), and several hours after that the field is divided by a rift of fire fountains pouring lava out as it slowly making its way to the sea.
RUclipsr Tom Scott has tried twice to visit Iceland for a lava eruption, and each time it stopped the day he arrived. He should be contacted in an emergency.
An Icelander here, at this time you may think there is truth in your words. But believe me you will not die from tasting (and maybe spitting out) fermented shark, but trying to outrun a lava flow in uneven and treacherous cold lava fields, nah you will probably not win that race.
You asked so here it is, Fagra-dals-fjall, a compound name. Directly translated using cognate words in English Fair-dale-fell. So the easiest way to pronounce it is to pull the compounds apart into its constituents and remember that Icelandic always stresses the first vowel of each word. Fa(g)ra-Dal’s-fyattl (the ttl as in little or in tittle…. Faire-dale’s mountain. 😊
Not Icelandic myself, but Swedish, and most Scandinavians struggle to pronounce some Icelandic words. They have a type of language that is thought to be one of the most similar to old norse/viking tounge. While the rest of the Scandinavian languages have been heavily influenced by German and French, Iceland has not. One thing I do know is that double LLs are usually pronounced more like ”TL”.
@12:12 so I've got bad news for you. Those aren't Pokemon cards; those are the Osho Zen Oracle. I know because I've used it as a divination tool for about 20 years now.
I laugh any time you tell the locals to let you know if you are pronouncing things correctly. This is the internet, of course they will even if you didn't ask them to. Lmao
01:00 Can a country survive 4 centuries of volcanic chaos? Dunno, but I reckon the Icelanders are gonna give it the jolly good old try to do so. And y'know what? I wouldn't be surprised if they'll still be on the Iceland in 2425, despite of anything short of a Yellowstone grade supereruption. Actually even if a supereruption DOES occur (unlikely), 400 years is plenty of time for things to settle enuff for humans to be back on Iceland long before 2400.
🇮🇸 As an Icelander who's been very close with the immgrant population for the past three decades,I must say your pronunciations of Icelandic names was understandable but not like a native. But there are sounds in Icelandic that are tricky for native English speakers and most others as well. The infamous double-L is nearly impossible and so is the nasal stop in N-sounds at the end of words. Eyjafjallajökull was torture for reporters, there are some compilations on RUclips. The word 'Þátttöku' (not a typo) is near impossible to figure out untill you've heard it a few times.
I'm always really impressed how the Icelanders,and Scandinavians generally, speak SUCH good English ! The Brits are generally pretty useless at speaking other languages,I suppose because it is universal ? Aren't we lucky ? (I speak a couple of other languages,by the way,for what it's worth !)
I lived (or used to live) in Grindavik. My house was completely wrecked and had to evacuate with my family on the 10th of November 2023. The government put heavy emphasis on saving infrastructure and the Blue Lagoon, a golden goose of tourism. They did absolutely nothing when it came to assisting the people who had to leave their homes, instead directing cashflow into the Blue Lagoon. My family squatted in my parents apartment the first month and had to fend for ourselves and plan for the future without aid, neither financial nor psychological. Other people from Grindavik weren't so lucky to find a place to stay and it was an absolute nightmare for many who lost both their homes, businesses and jobs in one night without anyone there to help. About a year later we were offered to sell our lots and homes to a real estate company contracted by the government and many of us had no choice but to do so. They plan to profit from this by renting out our homes to tourists in the near future. We were abandoned by our government, taken advantage of and left with financial ruin and psychological damage.
I'm sorry to hear about what happen to you and your family (along with their community). I'm saddened to see nobody else is talking about this in the comment section. I am curious, did the real estate company offer a "fair market value" or did they just low ball the offer?
@Outlawstar0198 They based their offer on property valuations (not market pricing) prior to the eruption. The problem with that is the housing market is brutal here in Iceland and you have to pay way more than just the property valuation in order to buy. People who lived in 20+ year old houses lost a lot of money. People close to me could've sold their house for 350.000 USD more on the market than what they got when they had to sell to the real estate company.
This needs to be in the whole world media! Outrageous! Not to help their own people and only thinking of tourism’s income. I am so saddened by this information and disgusted by human greed again. 😢 it’s hard enough just to live without all of this on top of it.
Well we have the biggest glazier in Europe Vatnajökull so there is lots of ice. Under that icesheet of Vatnajökull is the biggest volcano in Iceland named (wait for it) Bárðarbunga. ;-)
21:45 in like 600 years people might not believe we could do this as a species at this point in time like we do to so many indigenous people across the world.
You're a little late to the subject. Gylfi on his YT "Just Icelandic" channel has been talking about this for quite a while now. I highly recommend him for both his volcano and local tourism information. Not to mention his outstanding photography.
Just Icelandic is the channel I trust more about everything happening in Iceland ,Gylfi is very much on top of the subject ,and his filming is fantastic !
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1:10 thats a big juuuuup. we have already been there for over a thousand years, should be busyness as usual for us :) you are not getting on well with the names, sorry to say. you try, that is more important i think.
I've been watching Iceland for a number of years. The thing I NEVER hear anybody say is this. If something comes UP (lava), something else must eventually go down to fill the gap. Think about it.
If you ever have to pronounce Fagradalsfjall again, try to end with a t͡ɬ -- a clicky "TL" sound, like in 'Nahuatl'. If you find that noise tricky, go with a confident "fah-grah-dahs-f'yahd" followed IMMEDIATELY by a word beginning with an L and you'll sound like a native speaker.
Analyzing the way I mutilate words when talking fast and informally, it actually comes out more like "far ah das f'yatl". Vestmannaeyjar sounds like "ves munny yar" Reykjavík becomes "rake ya week", Keflavík gets mushed into "keb like", and Grindavík sounds like "grin dike".
It's easier if you're a little drunk.
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Icelander here. I was taking a geology course as the volcanoes started going off again and the teacher was so giddy with every earthquake. we went on so many field trips to both old and new lava fields to connect the study materials to something physical. the year before they went off she even told us that they should be going off soon and one year later Reykjanes was on fire.
Sounds like a good teacher ?!....😅
Introduce her to Nick Zentner. He’s also from a volcanic region.
Iceland - where being a geology teacher is an exiting, action filled job.
Who was your teacher? An Icelander here myself. I took geology lessons at Endurmennt about 10 years ago with Ármann Höskuldsson. At the time the ground at Móhálsadalur / Vigdísarvellir was rising. This was in October I think and Ármann was "convinced" that it would start erupting in that place before Christmas that year. hahaha. "Það mun gjósa hérna fyrir jól"... hehe
@ThorsteinnK Áslaug Gísladóttir is her name. Great teacher, still teaching today.
Iceland got its cobblestone generator dialed up to 11.
Minecraft reference
@GabrielLyons-i5r Thanks. I was wondering.
I came across a cobblestone made of an unusual pinkish granite with white (plagioclase) porphyroblasts a few weeks ago at the local Natural History Society rooms (as one does), and after identifying it (Mountsorrel, Leicestershire) rather followed a rabbit hole to end up installing a Minecraft-a-like.
I can't say I understood the game. Uninstalled it after an hour.
Is there a point to it?
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@max_gaming_altlol
@GabrielLyons-i5r ninja i thought that was a swastika 💔💔
For us volcanoes are not this dangerous monster that might come eat us, its a way of life. It just is. In 1973 my parents fled our hometown of Vestmannaeyjar because the island erupted. A few months later they moved back. And got on with life. In the late 90's i could see the new volcano out of my classroom window. When it was cold outside you could see smoke rising from it because it was still warm. When you have that kind of view your whole life, you learn to respect and live with the nature around you.
Its kind of exciting how the whole world seems to look towards our little nation in the past few years.
In 1978 we flew with Air Icelandic, from Luxemburg to New York (and made the 3-day stopover on Iceland). Approaching Reykjavik my dad was invited into the cockpit, where the pilots pointed out Surtsey. Unforgettable!
You and your fellow Icelanders coexist with your fiery land just like Japan does with their earthquakes.
It's the resilience and preparedness of both nations that's probably admired.
Everywhere else : daily weather forecast
Iceland : daily volcano forecast
Sort of like living in Australia, I guess. No active volcanoes, but bushfires and snakes and spiders and heat waves that can all kill with very little warning. You definitely need to respect it, but within respecting it you get on with your life.
Yall are going to be Americans soon apparently 😂
Hello i am a plumber from Grindavík í have been working with the earthquakes and lava and yes it has been a problem but what most people don't know is that the towns West part rose 1.5 meters and that has been our biggest problem where hot and cold water + electricity lines get ripped apart and the earth is not done yet as every week we notice new cracks or old cracks expanding
My work is very fun but can be difficult at times but we stife for safety in the town and hopefully Grindavík can be rebuild to its former glory
Please ask any questions if you have some ❤
I’m planning a return trip to Iceland, and hope to visit Grindavík. I’m glad to hear that the residents haven’t given up on it.
Has earthquakes stopped ❤❤
I was in Grindavik last week, very nice soup in the harbour cafe. But not many people. Our guide explained how the lava stopped but it was the flexing of the ground that made the town uninhabitable (for now).
gangi þér vel meistari🤜🤛
Would it help to build larger underground tubes - like say a metre or more in diameter, and run the water pipes and electricity cables inside those? Then when the ground moves you have up to a metre or so of movement before there is any pressure on the pipes/cables themselves. Or is that just not practical?
Evacuating Grindavik a few days before intrusion is underrated moment of humans being impressive
there was a bnb owner who nearly had to be arrested before he evacuated hours or minutes before the site erupted.
Humans being impressive would be not building your town/city in the direct path of known volcanic activity.....but then there's Icelandic people who do that anyway and then get shocked when the lava starts flowing and burning buildings down lol..."how did that ever happen!?" When the evidence is right in front of their faces.
the first settlers generally know nothing about the new land, historically@DanH-nk1my
@DanH-nk1myyou realize this chain of events is technically the first time modern humans with any real grasp of technology had encountered this right? Before now there’s only been essentially folklore about this…..
I live I Reykjavik last 8 years. We have great channel called Just Icelandic talking about earthquakes and volcanic activities
I second that! Just Islandic provides us with stunning photography and great humour
Oh wow, that’s your Weather Channel! Jeez. Crazy how people get used to everything… “We” lived through glaciation after all.
@e.k.4508thank you kind person, maybe we should tell them it's in English language, but its possible with Icelandic subtitles 😉
Gylfi is the person who introduced me to Icelandic volcanism with the viral Grindavik video and I watched all subsequent Sundhnúkur eruptions on his channel :) he's awesome and I can't recommend him enough!
@michaeltrilliumthere is two channels actually
I live in Reykjavík and i'm sitting in my room watching this video, everything is calm. But it can change very fast! Luckily everyone is safe.
@destrierofdark_ yeah, its just something that happens and life continues. its far away so its fine
thank you for sharing, and fingers crossed it stays that way.
I wish i could visit Iceland someday, if my finances allowed. you guys have such a wonderfull nature around you. Also i always hear that the Icelandic folk is one of the nicest one can meet
@zackzackjo it's totally worth it. lovely place and the people too.
Book tip: "Eldarnir" by Sigríður Björnsdóttir. 🙃
I have a bit of the initial 2021 eruption on a shelf above my computer. A former co-worker visited Iceland during the late stages of that eruption, and brought back a small chunk of pillow lava for me. We both have geology degrees, so that was not an odd gift at all.
And Icelandic geology guy here (don't have a degree though). how did pillow lava manage to form during any of these eruptions in the Reykjanes peninsula? None of them erupted near water. All of them were pretty much fissure eruptions (concentrating into a few cones in later stages). Also, none of the eruptions so far has reached the sea and the peninsule has no above ground rivers or lakes, The ground is too porous.
@ThorsteinnK There have been eruptions just off the coast that result in pillow lavas. Not sure how the pillows would have ended up where you can pick up a piece.
@ThorsteinnK My geologic terminology is seriously lacking, in part because it's been over 40 years since those college days, and we didn't spend much time on igneous rocks. The piece i had is a small, rounded blob that would have popped out of the side crust of a larger flow of ropey lava. I'm not going to try and spell the Hawaiian word.
Deleted "couple" scene form "When Harry Met Sally" :
"She threw rocks at you?"
"Yeah, we're geologists. Been married for 28 years now."
"Crystallising together."
I would like to see a video about mantle plumes 👍🌋
Cover the changes at Yellowstone too.
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@AstrumEarth Remembering that there is a small (but a long way from zero) contingent of geologists who are *very dubious about the reality or nature of mantle plumes.
Then there are others who accept the idea that plumes exist, but originate at the 400~600 mantle velocity discontinuity, and are really a near-surface phenomenon. And the equally vocal contingent who insist that they've *got* to originate at the core-mantle boundary, 3000+km down. Get two groups of them in a bar at a conference, and it's going to get ugly. Hammers at dawn.
Quite controversial things mantle plumes.
@WellsiteGeolog 😂😂 I'd love to be a fly on the wall at one of those.
I found pillow lava does not make a good pillow at all.
Hmm try the other lava
On the 10 of November 2023 my daughter was in Grindavìk when her house fell 1 meter as the ground gave way underneath. That experience was not pleasant to say the least. Nobody was hurt in all of this but the nervous system was severely affected. Thank you for the video well done
@destrierofdark_ It went well because all the ground in a large area were her house was, fell evenly. But when getting out off Grindavìk they had to look out for cracks in the road.
@oceanssecret69Does she plan on living there again after the experience?
@5thgen916nooooooo never😅
@oceanssecret69 that must have been an absolutely surreal feeling.
@oceanssecret69😂😂😂
Smart one! Can not blame her lol 😅
The real song of fire and ice
Yea...and we will see the end of a real song of ice and fire....before we see an end to ASOIAF
do yo mean A dance of fire and ice?
I'm '"Lava'n it!" 🍔
🇮🇸 I thought you did rather well. Would not be much fun if everyone could pronounce Icelandic well. More importantly you're facts and the final image of our situation seemed quite accurate and I even learned a few things myself. ❤😊
@destrierofdark_ Are you going to give some examples of inaccuracies in the video for us or just make baseless accusations?
@destrierofdark_need another bottle of battery acid to chug down and after that wash it away with a jug of vinegar??
Hey, Icelandic isn't that har after all. Use any Scandinavian language, develop a lisp and end every word possible with -ur.
Jokes aside, i really enjoyed visiting Iceland. Extremely nice people and exceptionally stunning surroundings. (Also extremely expensive though).
thank you very much :)
@destrierofdark_ I would love to hear you pronounce Mandarin or Zulu names based on interviewing Chinese or South African people in English. It would be very amusing, because language-learning doesn’t work that way. If you weren’t such a relentlessly unpleasant person to deal with, you might have enough conversational experience to understand this.
We have volcanic activity on Hawaii. For the first time in my 30 years, we got rocks, ash and Peles hair falling on us. It usually goes south or out to sea. We have had too many close calls of late.
It's really nothin'...tried it. that and smoked puffin!
Thrilling,but terrifying at the same time,I guess.....
@charliehayward2512well put. 😂
@matycee what?
@Kamehaiku oh... i see. that is funny. smoked and puffin'. right... so, the small, lovely bird. We also tried it, smoked. Like salmon. But Puffin. It's eaten there as is the Deep Sea Greenland shark. Huh! I coulda sworn I saw about eating shark here... that's what I was responding to.
17:30 I'm glad we're all on the same page that ten centimeters is huge.
13:29 sounds like what happened to me after I ate Tacobell last week.
9:05 my pc crashed right after you said "something even more sinister is brewing below the surface..."
It was very impressive to see the workers in action to protect Grindavik and Svartsengi/Blue Lagoon. They will fight for every energy line, every road, every house, I guess. One of the stunning achievements is the building of new roads over hot lava. I mean really hot, it's wise to never stop driving or your tires will melt or burn.
I agree, what an amazing group of people!
Seems weird to me. They spent a lot of money on defense when they could have just denied it, said it was impossible to do anything about it, and eventually blamed immigrants.
There's another comment on this video from someone whose family and community in Grindavik was left high and dry while the government prioritized the Blue Lagoon for (what sounds like) tourism reasons
"They will fight for every energy line, every road, every house, I guess."
Oh I very much doubt they'll do that. They're culturally Nordic - and they'll have assessed the risks and risk-benefit payoff *years* before the eruption started. And have an annual re-assessment of criteria of what to fight for versus what to leave to burn.
Do you remember the Heimahey (sp?) eruption on the Vestmannayar Islands in about 1975?
I do (and I'm not Icelandic, and wasn't even *that* interested in geology at the time ; though it may have been about the time I started to pay attention to it before going to a school where it was an optional course). It was moderately controversial, even in Britain, how the volcano fighters set up seawater pumps, built berms, fought to protect ... I forget the harbour town's name ... partly diverted the lava flow ... but let some parts of the town burn. Result : most of the town was saved ; general success after a strategic retreat. Zero, IIRC, funerals.
[ Ichecked ... "Heimaey" ; Eldfell volcano ; 1973 ; one dead ; most of the building damage was from ash accumulation on roofs, which doesn't slide off like snow - an annual problem).
In practical terms, the 1973 evacuation moved 5200 people ; the town's current population is 4500, which is not a bad 50 year ratio in these urbanising days.)
But take-away point : they will *choose" to fight *winnable* fights. They won't defend every inch of ground and square metre of roof ; that's a dangerous waste of effort.
@eshafto truth hurts
Yup I'm old enough to remember the birth of that island.
Bro is lowkey flexing being older than an island. I respect it.
Surtsey?
There have been around a half-dozen other born - and most of them gone - since.
Surtsey was started before I was born, but was still being built after I was born. But I probably didn't hear of it until Eldfell blew a little further along the same structure in 1973.
Without another eruption - and of more solid lava, not spatter - it'll be gone again by about 2100. Which is the norm for such events.
@destrierofdark_ Anyone over 65/ 66 ;
Which would be nearly half the population.
@destrierofdark_ I think the 2100 "disappear below sea level" estimate is allowing quite a lot for the *existing* solidified lava core. Getting above sea level is a hard thing for a volcanic island because the sea is pretty good at removing rock. Particularly if there is a slope for the rock to fall down.
I was in iceland not even a year ago. Everyone knows those green "EXIT" signs that mark the emergency exits in buildings right?
In iceland whole TOWNS have such signs, marking the evacuating roads and routes. It was surreal to see that.
No? 😂 I've lived here my whole life and I've never seen it 😅
We have those in costal Florida too, but for threats from ABOVE 🌀 instead of BELOW 🌋
🇮🇸 An Icelander here, at 7:30 you mention that i looks like the surface of the moon. Did you know that Nasa sent all the astronauts that were applicable to go to the moon to Iceland to this moonlike landscape to train. (This is where they shot the moonlanding it was all taken in Iceland and was therefore faked, just kidding). Also I always find it funny when someone non-native tries to speak it, but you did pretty good. I must also congratulate you an atleast trying to pronounce the "Sundahnjúksgígaröðin" and the "Fagradalsfjall" since the sounds needed to pronounce those words are almost only preserved in scandinavian countries and ofcourse Iceland.
I tried pronouncing those words and it did not go well
THE FURNITURE IS FLOATING! a joke but bruh the tongue twisters are easier.
+1 for vid on mantle hot spots.
+2
+3
My wife is a Tenerife native so a discussion of its formation, major (caldera forming) eruption and potential future would be very interesting.
I second that. I knew very little about mantle hotspots before this video as a British man that does not live anywhere near active volcanoes, we don't generally learn much about them in education.
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This makes me want to visit Iceland even more
"Iceland is a mere teenager"
Well that explained it's horrendous acne outbreak problem
Eyjafjallajökull was the result of a misunderstanding. It was the 2008 financial crisis, and the banking sector was imploding. Icelandic banks were told to "SEND CASH" but there is no letter C in the Icelandic alphabet, so it printed out as "SEND ASH".
I'm Irish, we're not too far from Iceland and I remember being in school and seeing what I thought was snow falling from the sky. It was volcanic ash and one of the most magical experiences of my life. (I'm AuDHD and hyperdixate on volcanos)
@shannonmoody9893 I was stuck on an oil rig between Ireland and England for 9 days because of that. IT reached the point, between planned crew changes and needing to move new specialist personnel and their tools onto the rig (and old personnel and tools off ; limited deck space and "variable deck load" for the footings) that we were getting close to the point of using boats and crane baskets for personnel transfers. Generally we don't do crane basket transfers because the death rate is too high - under good conditions.
That's horrifying for you @WellsiteGeolog
Hahahaha
There was a joke at the time, when the ash was grounding most flights around Europe (and this was shortly after the Icelandic financial implosion), that the last wish of Iceland's economy was to have its ashes scattered over Europe.
Yes, I am Icelandic, and I’m actually impressed with your pronounciation. You are doing better than most foreigners. But, there had to be a but, 😂..when pronouncing Reykjavík imagine it to be spelled differently. That is, instead of Rey in the beginning, see it as Ray, that would make the beginning of the word correct. The “vík” part or rather the ‘ik’ as you probably see it, is closer to “eek”. I will have to rewatch to see if there is something else I can correct where pronounciation is concerned.
Fagradalsfjall kona! hahaha Frábært video samt hjá þeim.
I fully agree. Compared to the usual pronunciation done by foreigners, this stands out for being recognizable. I mean it's nothing like Eyjafjallajökull where the US Air force gave it the code name E18 because they just gave up both spelling and pronouncing it.
It's easy for an ai
Rey and Ray in English are homophones so we may need a little more help haha
@spinklesoftinkles There *isn’t* a common pronunciation for “rey” in English, which is why “ray” is a better guide.
1:45 hakaarl is not a delicacy, it is a lovely trick on tourists
I had some last week. Thought it was OK, didn't understand what the fuss was. But I did have a heavy cold so I couldn't smell it. Preferred smoked puffin.
I really like the effort, and most of the words were fine, your "Reykjavík" was pretty good, but Fagradalsfjall was rough but to be fair the doubble L's are imposible for outsiders to get right. and love the video
hi from Iceland
Some Norwegian west coast dialects do the same thing with the LL's, saying them as "DL". Eyjafjallajökull is something like "eh-ya-fyad-la-yuh-kudl" for English speakers, IIRC. Easy!
Very close to the Welsh LL. It's a rare, difficult sound for most
I was annoyed that he pronounced basalt wrong though. That ones easy. Its not pronounced like bass, its pronounced more like buhsalt.
@alexdrockhound9497nah that's the British pronunciation. Only makes sense he uses the British pronunciation as a Brit himself lol
@alexdrockhound9497
You should probably look things up before you make comments about how words are pronounced. If you go to Merriam-Webster, there are two correct pronunciations for basalt.. just because he used the one that you don't know about, does not mean he pronounced it wrong. He did in fact pronounce basalt correctly.
Fun fact, because the way language works, if enough people pronounce/spell a word in a different way enough times, it becomes officially correct. That's literally how the word octopi became correct spelling. Octopus came from greek, and when you do multiples in greek, it ends in es. But because so many people incorrectly spelled it octopi for so long, it is now officially a correct spelling.
Would also love a vid on the different types of lava?? Idk if that something youd do but yeahh thank you for all you do!! Love your channel
I visited family in Reykjavik in 2023, a week after the eruption
Using the viking folklore really shows how human progress really builds upon itself. Even if you don't know, document it and it may be useful later. However they had much more fun with it.
Extremely proper prepared information package. Thank you, very informative.
"Can a modern society survive for centuries among fire and chaos?"
Hawaii: 👀
Iceland is orders of magnitude more intense.
Great video ,content and style, images and even the voiceover are amazing !
thank you, glad you enjoyed!
If only we could harvest that energy 👀
I hope to be able to travel to Iceland in the future!
me too!
Will visit someday. ❤ beautiful
You forgot to bring in the Vestmannaeyjar harbor incident. 1973, when they saved their harbor from a lava flow from the Eldfell volcano.
Came to my mind as well, not with water this time, but it is the same fight!
Ohh, top of my bucket list of places to visit. Thanks for the virtual tour!
id love to see a video about mantle hotspots :)
3:37
the world's largest lava lamp?
nah, the world is the lava lamp
10:43 Looks like a bone yard
Recently back after a six month trip. I was living at Strandakirkja. I spent one morning at the eruption site; just me and a vulcanologist from the Lava Show. A magical experience.
Beautiful images and very informative. Thanks for sharing all this great information on what Island is doing to protect itself.
greenland is ice
and iceland is.... well burning
Unsolicited random knowledge: Iceland was named by Viking Flóki after seeing ice-filled fjords during a harsh winter. Greenland was named by Erik the Red around 982 AD to make it sound attractive and lure settlers there, so basically medieval marketing lol
cant wait for fireland to be a simple and peaceful place.
Brilliant video, educational and entertaining. Thank you, James and team 👍
thank you for the kind words
Amazing stuff. I had no idea that Iceland was basically a giant volcano.
So are all the islands of Hawai'i
wow so interesting haven seen a doco this interesting in a very long time keep up the good work
saw some of my stock videos in this video, great to see!
@destrierofdark_its one of the better feelings to be honest, just that someone picks “your video” to use is awesome. Probably means nothing for most but for me it means alot!
which ones? that really cool
icelander here. at 5:05 your pronunciation of Reykjanes barely had an accent. be proud of this because ive heard MOST others on youtube say it as "wreckaness". good job
Iceland is perhaps the only nation that is totally chilled out by eruptions. I have seen videos of them barbquing sausages on lava flows.
We bake bread in em to, old tradition and best bread you will ever taste.
Icelander here. Just wanted to say that this was a great video, Take care Stay safe and of course Admire Iceland ;)
@destrierofdark_ yeah, but he's actually trying, unlike others that just say whatever bullshitthey can think of and a lot of people will believe it since no one knows anything about Iceland and that's painful, im just happy he's really trying with everything
Wow!
Rejavic is Way warmer in winter than "Indy" here in the Midwest US. We haven't even Been Up to -3°C in weeks 😆
Fabulous documentary and narration. Really enjoying this.
I've been to Reykjavik in mid January and was warmer than Paris
Oceanic climate will do that
Iceland has low temperatures all year round but jumps also ar not so big as elsewhere. Sometimes night is warmer than day. And few months ago at night Iceland was the warmest place in Europe.
This year, or?
@destrierofdark_ This is true, it is pretty normal though for me 😅. When did you come here?
I've also been in Reykjavik, in (edit) March (not May), and it was so freezing cold. Temperature minus few degrees Celsius and strong winds blowing that wind everywhere.
we d like to see a video about that another time
Iceland is also known for having several of it's inhabitants win the World's Strongest Man Contest. 👍🏼👍🏼
Great work brother! I enjoyed it and it was great information!!
Watch Shawn Willsey Geology Explained
Him, or Tim at @geologyhub
absolutely
I third that. As well as Nick Zentner and GeoGirl
Iceland mentioned
Wow! There is something so primal about volcanos and new land and people being there. I wish I was there.
I remember this was so well planned I was able to watch someone live stream when the lava finally started to breach the surface somewhere along the rift and it was a crazy thing to see; I could only imagine how much crazier it'd be to experience in person. The person that filmed it had camped out near by only hours before it started and was within 5km of were it'd break the surface first in that area; that is how well they understood it. You start off with a large field with with nothing but grasses and moss, the person streaming zooms in on a patch of grass that is smoldering and smoking, a few minutes later there is a small grass fire, another few minutes after that a small fumerial opens, about 40 minutes after the stream started there was a hole of lava and fire about 1 to 2 meters across (I would assume there was a lava tube under the field and this was part of the roof melting away), and several hours after that the field is divided by a rift of fire fountains pouring lava out as it slowly making its way to the sea.
RUclipsr Tom Scott has tried twice to visit Iceland for a lava eruption, and each time it stopped the day he arrived. He should be contacted in an emergency.
Can't wait to see iceland looking like Ba Sing Se in 5-10 years
I will be honest and say I would rather outrun a lava flow than eat fermented shark!
🤣😆😁👍👍🤢🌋
Good luck. Summa dhem go fast! The lava flows i mean...
@jamesleatherwood5125I will take my chance 😊
An Icelander here, at this time you may think there is truth in your words. But believe me you will not die from tasting (and maybe spitting out) fermented shark, but trying to outrun a lava flow in uneven and treacherous cold lava fields, nah you will probably not win that race.
May be the other way around: feed the shark to the volcano - evtl. it helps
The Netherlands: Let's pull new land out of the sea.
Iceland: Hold my beer.
Iceland 🇮🇸
James is SUCH a good narrator, honestly. In this video in particular, he sounds as fascinated by this stuff as the whole team hope we'll be
ahh thank you very much for the kind words
You asked so here it is, Fagra-dals-fjall, a compound name. Directly translated using cognate words in English Fair-dale-fell. So the easiest way to pronounce it is to pull the compounds apart into its constituents and remember that Icelandic always stresses the first vowel of each word. Fa(g)ra-Dal’s-fyattl (the ttl as in little or in tittle…. Faire-dale’s mountain. 😊
I was thinking of going there for a vacation, not anymore.
Not Icelandic myself, but Swedish, and most Scandinavians struggle to pronounce some Icelandic words. They have a type of language that is thought to be one of the most similar to old norse/viking tounge. While the rest of the Scandinavian languages have been heavily influenced by German and French, Iceland has not.
One thing I do know is that double LLs are usually pronounced more like ”TL”.
I hope everyone will be safe, but man, this is so cool!
@12:12 so I've got bad news for you. Those aren't Pokemon cards; those are the Osho Zen Oracle. I know because I've used it as a divination tool for about 20 years now.
Very good indeed. Extremely interesting and well presented. Great stuff.
I laugh any time you tell the locals to let you know if you are pronouncing things correctly. This is the internet, of course they will even if you didn't ask them to. Lmao
Excellent. I enjoyed this. More recommendations for more?
01:00 Can a country survive 4 centuries of volcanic chaos? Dunno, but I reckon the Icelanders are gonna give it the jolly good old try to do so. And y'know what? I wouldn't be surprised if they'll still be on the Iceland in 2425, despite of anything short of a Yellowstone grade supereruption. Actually even if a supereruption DOES occur (unlikely), 400 years is plenty of time for things to settle enuff for humans to be back on Iceland long before 2400.
Great video. Fantastic information and delivery
🇮🇸 🌋. Strong 💪 work ! ✅
Still thinking about fermented shark
🇮🇸 As an Icelander who's been very close with the immgrant population for the past three decades,I must say your pronunciations of Icelandic names was understandable but not like a native. But there are sounds in Icelandic that are tricky for native English speakers and most others as well. The infamous double-L is nearly impossible and so is the nasal stop in N-sounds at the end of words. Eyjafjallajökull was torture for reporters, there are some compilations on RUclips.
The word 'Þátttöku' (not a typo) is near impossible to figure out untill you've heard it a few times.
Astrum is not a native English speaker
I'm always really impressed how the Icelanders,and Scandinavians generally, speak SUCH good English ! The Brits are generally pretty useless at speaking other languages,I suppose because it is universal ? Aren't we lucky ? (I speak a couple of other languages,by the way,for what it's worth !)
This is great. Marvellous views and sensible dialogue.
I lived (or used to live) in Grindavik. My house was completely wrecked and had to evacuate with my family on the 10th of November 2023. The government put heavy emphasis on saving infrastructure and the Blue Lagoon, a golden goose of tourism. They did absolutely nothing when it came to assisting the people who had to leave their homes, instead directing cashflow into the Blue Lagoon. My family squatted in my parents apartment the first month and had to fend for ourselves and plan for the future without aid, neither financial nor psychological. Other people from Grindavik weren't so lucky to find a place to stay and it was an absolute nightmare for many who lost both their homes, businesses and jobs in one night without anyone there to help. About a year later we were offered to sell our lots and homes to a real estate company contracted by the government and many of us had no choice but to do so. They plan to profit from this by renting out our homes to tourists in the near future. We were abandoned by our government, taken advantage of and left with financial ruin and psychological damage.
I'm sorry to hear about what happen to you and your family (along with their community). I'm saddened to see nobody else is talking about this in the comment section.
I am curious, did the real estate company offer a "fair market value" or did they just low ball the offer?
@Outlawstar0198 They based their offer on property valuations (not market pricing) prior to the eruption. The problem with that is the housing market is brutal here in Iceland and you have to pay way more than just the property valuation in order to buy. People who lived in 20+ year old houses lost a lot of money. People close to me could've sold their house for 350.000 USD more on the market than what they got when they had to sell to the real estate company.
@PHolger"it's too dangerous to live here, but we can buy your homes on the cheap and let our realtor friends rent them out for tourism"
This needs to be in the whole world media! Outrageous! Not to help their own people and only thinking of tourism’s income. I am so saddened by this information and disgusted by human greed again. 😢 it’s hard enough just to live without all of this on top of it.
Icelander here, the eruptions happen so often that people talk about them casually. Amazing video man!
punk hazard irl before gta 6
Iceland is unironically called the land of fire😭
Well we have the biggest glazier in Europe Vatnajökull so there is lots of ice. Under that icesheet of Vatnajökull is the biggest volcano in Iceland named (wait for it) Bárðarbunga. ;-)
Cube Chemistry has an amazing elements channel.
21:45 in like 600 years people might not believe we could do this as a species at this point in time like we do to so many indigenous people across the world.
Another well explained and concise video. Keep up the great work.
You're a little late to the subject. Gylfi on his YT "Just Icelandic" channel has been talking about this for quite a while now. I highly recommend him for both his volcano and local tourism information. Not to mention his outstanding photography.
Just Icelandic is the channel I trust more about everything happening in Iceland ,Gylfi is very much on top of the subject ,and his filming is fantastic !
Great video, very interesting! Thanks!
Love your videos and a regular here.🇮🇸 First to HYPE.... 😁😘🇮🇸
"I AM THE HYPE!" XD
Very cool to see what our planet is doing, even today. I hope all those living in that area stay safe!
So the Nordic people who first set foot on the western half of Iceland were technically the first Europeans to step foot on the American continent?
Loved every minute of this video, learned a lot at the same time.🔥🔥🔥🔥🤗🤗
Iceland playing real life The Floor Is Lava
Nice to see humans working with nature instead of destroying and poluting what part keeps us alive.
I e been watching their progress since eruptions began and they have done an amazing job! 🇮🇸
Love the work mate.
thanks mate!
Really great video!