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People, stop sharing this obvious fake...

Calm down, Slartibartfast

The Vikings performed the greatest prank in human history.

Not really. Iceland was named by Flóki Vilgerðarströnd after seeing pack ice during his first winter at Barðaströnd. A name that few probably questioned after seeing Vatnajökull on the approach. Greenland wasn't the whole island, but rather an Iceland-like green area near the coast.

Which is great unless you live near an erupting volcano. Or if you want to sleep in the summer or be out after 4 in the winter.

Living at a similar latitude in Finland, blackout curtains mostly solve the "Sleeping in the summer" issue. Good blackout curtains hung correctly can basically cut out almost everything.

Do you get troll weather in Finland? When I was in Reykjavik, we’d often have blasters rain and grey skies all day. Then we’d be driving home from the cinema or something and the sun would be all I AM HERE. And blaze all night. Natch, it would naff off before we woke up.

Am planetary scientist, can confirm.

Confirm what? That we’re a planet? 🌎

Ask the IAU, they’re the ones who get to define what a planet is for some completely arbitrary reason.

Glaciers upon volcanoes for those oh so impressive phreatic eruptions.

Sedimentologists were NOT invited. (which is fine)

Hey, we have tuff, and some interesting subglacial-eruption-formed sediments. Indeed, windblown allophane from said eruptions is the scourge of farmers here, it binds all our phosphorus and makes our soil liquefy easily!

I was wondering what kind of agriculture Iceland has? Guess I’ll go down the rabbit hole or researching this now

Ha! I just work with a ton of sedimentalogists and thought it was funny they weren’t included. I did see some sediments in Iceland last summer, but there were more interesting geologic things. :)