Among geographers, historians, and men of letters, Iceland has not fared well. Pliny barely admitted the place was anything more than a myth. An anonymous 10th-Century English poet called it “a ...

After nearly 2,000 homes in Stannington ... By midnight he said the house felt "as cold as Iceland" and he spent an hour with a tiny electric heater trying to warm the boy's room.

After the seventh eruption, people were evacuated from about 50 homes in Grindavík, according to the country's Civil Protection Agency. Iceland is home to 33 active volcanic systems, more than ...