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"'It may be, said Jokull, 'that both of us see some way into the future, and yet neither of us can do anything to prevent it. "After this they parted, and neither liked the other's forebodings. "Grettir rode to Thorhall-stead, and the yeoman received him heartily. He asked Grettir where he was going, who said that he wished to stay there all night if he would allow him.
Jokull bade him do it not, "Because it is a great risk for thy good luck, and thy kinsmen have much to hazard where thou art," said he, "for of young men we think there is none such as thou; but <i>from ill cometh ill</i> whereas Glam is; and far better it is to deal with men than with such evil wights." Grettir said, "That he had a mind to go to Thorhall-stead and see how things went there."
Of these an extended description is worthy of being given. Of these two memorable eruptions, that of Skaptar Jokull began on the 11th of June, 1783. It was preceded by a long series of earthquakes, which had become exceedingly violent immediately before the eruption.
Grettir asked closely about all things that had happed. Jokull said that thereof was told no more than the very truth; "And, perchance, thou art wishful to go there, kinsman?" Grettir said that so it was.
Jokull told him that no more was said than had really happened. "Why, do you want to go there?" he asked. Grettir said that it was so. Jokull told him not to do it. "It would be a most hazardous undertaking," he said. "Your kinsmen incur a great risk with you as you are. There does not seem to be one of the younger men who is your equal. It is ill dealing with such a one as Glam.
At present its main office is to serve as a sulphur mine. Thus the peak which gives title to all fire-breathing mountains has become a servant to man. So are the mighty fallen! Skaptar Jokull and Hecla, the Great Icelandic Volcanoes.
Presently two mighty streams of lava, one of which was fifteen miles wide and one hundred feet deep, came pouring down the sides of Skaptar Jokull. The lava floods filled up the valleys, quenched rivers, and spread destruction over the adjacent country. The intense heat blasted the vegetation far and wide.
In 1783, about a month before the eruption of Skaptar Jokull, a volcanic island named Nyoe, from which fire and smoke issued, was built up. But in time it vanished under the waves, all that remains of it to-day being a reef from five to thirty-five fathoms below the sea-level.
"I am thinking how it may fare with you yourself before all is done." "It may be," said Jokull, "that we both see what is before us, and yet we may not alter it." Then they parted, neither of them well pleased with the other's prophetic saying. Grettir rode to Thorhallsstad where he was welcomed by the bondi.
Great displays of the aurora borealis usually accompany the volcanic eruptions of this island doubtless resulting from the quantity of electricity imparted to the higher atmosphere by the condensation of the ascending vapors. On the 18th of August, 1783, while the great eruption of Skaptar Jokull was in progress, an immense fire-ball passed over England and the European continent as far as Rome.
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