Lava flows mainly along the protective barriers built these past weeks. The Icelandic press is unanimous.
“Without the dikes that were built, the lava from the eruption that occurred last night would probably have flowed south, over Grindavik,” wrote the daily Morgunblaðið this Sunday. The 3,500 inhabitants had once again been evacuated, as was the main village of the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973. The protective barriers have made it possible to avoid this worst-case scenario in this fairly flat region.