The Vanishing Volcanoes: Fragments of Fourteenth-century Icelandic Folklore [ ].

The entire corpus of Icelandic Family Sagas contains no express reference to volcanic fires. This article explores the reasons behind this puzzling absence in a genre whose realism is rightly celebrated. I propose to read a unique, oblique reference in Grettis saga as possible evidence of a submerged vernacular theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]