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The Eldgja eruption: timing, long-range impacts and influence on the Christianisation of Iceland

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F18%3A00113401" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/18:00113401 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Alternative codes found

    RIV/86652079:_____/18:00496041

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-018-2171-9" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-018-2171-9</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-018-2171-9" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10584-018-2171-9</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    The Eldgja eruption: timing, long-range impacts and influence on the Christianisation of Iceland

  • Original language description

    The Eldgja lava flood is considered Iceland's largest volcanic eruption of the Common Era. While it is well established that it occurred after the Settlement of Iceland (circa 874 CE), the date of this great event has remained uncertain. This has hampered investigation of the eruption's impacts, if any, on climate and society. Here, we use high-temporal resolution glaciochemical records from Greenland to show that the eruption began in spring 939 CE and continued, at least episodically, until at least autumn 940 CE. Contemporary chronicles identify the spread of a remarkable haze in 939 CE, and tree ring-based reconstructions reveal pronounced northern hemisphere summer cooling in 940 CE, consistent with the eruption's high yield of sulphur to the atmosphere. Consecutive severe winters and privations may also be associated with climatic effects of the volcanic aerosol veil. Iceland's formal conversion to Christianity dates to 999/1000 CE, within two generations or so of the Eldgja eruption. The end of the pagan pantheon is foretold in Iceland's renowned medieval poem, VC &lt;&lt; luspa ('the prophecy of the seeress'). Several lines of the poem describe dramatic eruptive activity and attendant meteorological effects in an allusion to the fiery terminus of the pagan gods. We suggest that they draw on first-hand experiences of the Eldgja eruption and that this retrospection of harrowing volcanic events in the poem was intentional, with the purpose of stimulating Iceland's Christianisation over the latter half of the tenth century.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10500 - Earth and related environmental sciences

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2018

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Climatic Change

  • ISSN

    0165-0009

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    147

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    3-4

  • Country of publishing house

    NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

  • Number of pages

    13

  • Pages from-to

    369-381

  • UT code for WoS article

    000428427200001

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85044019279