That should be spelled "vökull".

I look forward to the first limerick.

Okay, I could probably do better if my Icelandic pronunciation was more fluent...

Eyjafjallajökull's striking:
An ash-clound that nobody's liking,
And in Fimmvörðuháls
The eruption still prowls
So we've cancelled both flying and hiking.

I never realised you were part Vogon, Doug.

I knew there was a reason I had this userpic.

heh heh heh.

I sit in awe.

Still, on the topic of pronunciation, Wikipedia's audio clip of an Icelander saying "Eyjafjallajökull" is... well, it's a remarkable noise. Rhyme anything English with it, they'll crown you Poet Laureate or something. It sort of starts "Eyja-" and then I need a fish in my ear.

It's the way they can pronounce the double L at the end of a word, something I can only really do in the middle. It should be a bit like -tl (like certain Mexican place names) but I find it hard to do without a following vowel.

*click* *click* Sounds like he's swallowed the final few syllables.

I'm quite used to the double (geminated?) consonants in Scandinavian languages, and I can imagine how it might be possible at the end of a word. The recording does sound like he's eating lutefisk instead of actually saying the word for 'glacier', though.

Downriver of Eyjafjallajökull
The people are all getting vökull.
The mountain's on fire;
The waters are higher;
To reporters they say "Are you lökull?"

Ouch.

http://youngdiplomat.blogspot.com/2010/04/o-eyjafjallajokull.html