O nome impronunciável do vulcão islandês

Eis a explicação sobre o que é que o nome do vulcão significa. Obrigada à jornalista Ana Machado do PÚBLICO que pediu um esclarecimento sobre a maneira mais correcta de escrever o nome do vulcão e recebeu esta resposta da Universidade da Islândia.

"The correct name of the volcano is Eyjafjallajokull. The volcano is under the glacier like many other volcanoes in Iceland. Some volcanos under a glacier have a proper name, but this one doesn´t. It is named after the glacier itself. Like many icelandic words the name of the glacier consists of more than 2 words. Eyja means island, fjalla means mountains and jokull is glacier. So what it really means is: the glacier of the mountains next to the islands (Westman islands)."
Ása Kolka Haraldsdóttir, Information Office - University of Iceland