The Iceland year-book - 01.01.1926, Blaðsíða 21

but there are, besides, not a few falls which delight
the eye by their loftiness and grace, recalling those
of the Californian Yosemite. Such are the Hengifoss
(..hanging cataract**) in the Fljotsdalur, the Dynj-
andi (..thundering**) cascade on the ArnarfjorSur,
and the unforgettable Seljalandsfoss, leaping from
high up the Eyjafjallajokull, near the southern
shore — a slender thread of water, which, glittering
in the sunlight, is visible from beyond the sea that
' separates the-Westman Islands from the mainland,
and tells the islanders, before setting out, by the
way it is blown hither and tither, whether they may
hope to make a landing on the neighbouring har-
bourless coast; and the Drifandifoss, also driven,
as its name indicates, to and fro, — the plaything
of the breeze; but, as in other worlds of snow-clad
heights, these rivulets, descending, like fair and
shining ribbons, from great elevations, occur, in
vernal and summer days, everywhere all over the
land.
No quarter of the earth excels Ice-
The varied land in the unending diversity of its
mountain mountain shapes, which present every
shapes. possible order of grouping. They are
conical, domed, pyramidal, truncated,
horned, pointed, turtle-backed, grotesque, single-
pinnacled and many-pinnacled, massive and slender,
terraced and columnar, turreted and crested, soli-
tary and clustered, and so on ad infinitum. Of
course they divide themselves into
Glaciers and two markedly different classes, the
Volcanoes, jokulls (glacial mountains),and those
without glaciers — jokull signifying,
in a general way, either a glacier or a glacier-pro-
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