What a great name

The recent volcanic eruption in Iceland is awesome in so many ways, but it seems to me that no one is drawing enough attention to the coolest thing about it. The name of the volcano is Eyjafjallajokul. Seriously, how cool is that? If I wrote a name like that into a fictional fantasy people would roll their eyes and go, "Oh, look at the wanker author trying to be all clever with whacky sounding names."

The name is in fact that of a glacier – Eyjafjallajokul means "(the) island-fells glacier" –...