Krafla
The Volcan Krafla (818 m) is located in the north of the Iceland. It is a central volcano with many craters in the area of the lake Mývatn.
One of the two craters with the name Víti belongs to Krafla. (There is another of this name which is close to the volcano Askja). The name Víti wants to say hell in Icelandic. Of the the Middle Ages and as later, one often thought as the hell was below the volcanos. There are also stories concerning the Icelandic volcano Hekla confirming this superstition. The Víti crater had its last eruption in 1976. Today, one finds inside a Lac of turquoise color.
In the years 1724 with 1729 and once again in 1746, considerable eruptions of Krafla (called fires of Mývatn ) with enormous castings of Lave threatened the village of Reykjahlíð. The church was saved by the casting, which separated into two before arriving at its height, fact qualified since the “miraculous one” by the inhabitants, who kept the church and casting in the state.
The last eruption of Krafla took place in 1984. A great lava flow (the Leirhnjúkshraun ) close to the volcano Leirhnjúkur is still hot and emits sulphuric vapors.
Since 1977, one uses geothermal energy in a powerplant.
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