Okjokull, in western Iceland, was officially declared dead in 2014, aged around 800

It was not the smallest glacier around, nor the most remote. You could see it from outlying parts of Reykjavik, Iceland's capital, and from a long section of the country's ring road. Nor was it striking. It had none of the beauty of its neighbour Snafellsjokull, draping the perfect volcanic cone where Jules Verne found the tunnelthat led to the centre of the Earth, nor the unearthly blueness of Svinafellsjokull, which played a background in "Game of Thrones".

The mountain was compared back then, when the sky was "the dwarf's helmet" and the earth "Odin's bride", to a dead female troll lying on her back. The snow, only starting then to compact into Okjokull, was the whiteness of her breast. How she came to be lying there was amystery; the story had disappeared. An odd image and an odder name, which made Icelanders laugh—if they had heard of Ok at all.

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