The unicorn rock, »Einhyrningur« in Icelandic. Two years earlier, I had already photographed it in completely different weather, and the sun had only come out for a brief moment. This year was completely different. It was a cloudless day in the highlands, and we could already see the glacier shining to the south of us as we drove along the banks of the Markafljót river.
We had a really great view. Einhyrningur in the foreground, the riverbed of Markafljót running through the picture from left to right and the glacier tongues of Eyjafjallajökull behind it. From this perspective, the old crater rim of Einhyrningur can be seen very clearly and at the same time it can be recognized that today’s mountain is the stump of the cooled lava in the volcanic vent.
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