Editing Hekla (section)

==In popular culture==
Hekla has featured in artistic works since the time of its medieval infamy.

=== Architecture ===
The [[Tour Hekla]], a 220 metre-tall [[skyscraper]] in [[La Défense]], Paris, France, built in 2022, is named after the volcano.

===Films===
In the Spanish apocalyptic [[science fiction]] film, ''[[Los Últimos Días]]'' (2013), some news reporters speculate that three recent eruptions of Mount Hekla could have caused the spreading form of agoraphobia that kills affected people who go outside.

The climax of [[Robert Eggers]]'s 2022 film ''[[The Northman]]'' takes place on the slopes of Hekla.

===Food===
In the [[Boston, Massachusetts]] area, Hekla pastries can be found – large, upside-down [[cinnamon roll]]s with white sugar [[Icing (food)|icing]] spooned over the top to look like the snow-topped volcano.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.knoxgardner.com/2006/behold-hekla/|title=Behold! Hekla|access-date=31 December 2007|date=22 February 2006|website=Knoxgardner.com|author=Gardner, Knox|archive-date=21 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321192612/http://knoxgardner.com/2006/behold-hekla/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Literature===
The British poet [[William Blake]] showed Winter being banished to Hekla in ''To Winter'', one of the works from his ''Poetical Sketches''.<ref name="Blake">{{cite web |url=http://www.bibliomania.com/0/2/81/202/frameset.html |title=To Winter |access-date=26 November 2016 |website=Bibliomania: Poetical Sketches |year=1783}}</ref>

In ''[[The House of Niccolò#The series|To Lie With Lions]]'', by [[Dorothy Dunnett]], a party of merchants visiting Iceland in the year 1471 witnesses the spectacular (fictional) eruption of both Hekla and [[Katla volcano|Katla]].

Mt. Hekla is referenced in the third chapter of [[Herman Melville]]'s novel ''[[Moby Dick]]'', in EE Ryan's ''[[The Odd Saga of the American and a Curious Icelandic Flock]]'', and in the final chapters of [[Joan Aiken]]'s novel ''[[Is (novel)|Is]]''.

The [[Hekla 3]] eruption and the ensuing [[volcanic winter]] play a large role in [[Stephen Baxter (author)|Stephen Baxter]]'s alternate-history novel ''Bronze Winter''.

===Music===
The piece ''Hekla'', Op 52 (1964) by Icelandic composer [[Jón Leifs]], has been called the "loudest [[classical music]] of all time". The requirements for a performance of ''Hekla'' include four sets of rocks hit with hammers, steel plates, anvils, sirens, cannons, metal chains, choir, a [[Orchestra|large orchestra]], and organ.<ref>Booklet of CD: "Earquake" (sic), [[Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra]], [[Leif Segerstam]]. [[Ondine (record label)|Ondine]] ODE 894-2</ref>

[[File:TF-FIU "HEKLA AURORA".jpg|thumb|right|Icelandair's ''Hekla Aurora'' in 2014]]

===Transportation===
A small Danish [[cruiser]] launched in 1890 was named ''[[:de:Hekla (Schiff, 1890)|Hekla]]''; it was scrapped in 1955.

A Danish steamer called [[:File:Orlogsskibet Hekla i kamp med tyske kanonbåde 16 august 1850.jpg|Hekla]] also saw combat in the [[First Schleswig War]].

[[Icelandair]] named one of their aircraft after Hekla.

There have been several ships of the [[Royal Navy]] named [[HMS Hecla|HMS ''Hecla'']]

===Performing Arts===
[[Heklina]], the stage name for prominent [[Icelandic Americans|Icelandic-American]] drag performer Stefan Grygelko, was inspired by Hekla.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=H. R. |date=2025-04-01 |title=S.F. Drag queen Heklina’s cause of death is still a mystery, and the show goes on |url=https://missionlocal.org/2025/04/s-f-drag-queen-heklinas-cause-of-death-is-still-a-mystery-and-the-show-goes-on/ |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=Mission Local |language=en-US}}</ref> Grygelko, whose mother was Icelandic, spent part of his childhood in Iceland and helped to open a gay bar in [[Reykjavík|Reykjavik]] before relocating to [[San Francisco]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-08-13 |title=Kiss That Stud Goodbye |url=https://eastbayexpress.com/kiss-that-stud-goodbye-1/ |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=East Bay Express {{!}} Oakland, Berkeley & Alameda |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Würmann |first=Isaac |date=2020-10-01 |title=Outrageous drag queen Heklina spills her guts: “I see very little originality happening in drag” - GayIceland |url=https://gayiceland.is/2020/outrageous-drag-queen-heklina-spills-her-guts-i-see-very-little-originality-happening-in-drag/ |access-date=2025-04-03 |language=en}}</ref> Heklina's mysterious and unsolved death in London in April 2023, and the ensuing homophobia demonstrated by London police, caused international headlines.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bravo |first=Tony |title=Photos: Crowds rally for Heklina in London, demand justice for late S.F. drag queen |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/heklina-rally-london-sf-20246574.php |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250331184138/http://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/heklina-rally-london-sf-20246574.php |archive-date=2025-03-31 |access-date=2025-04-03 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |language=en}}</ref>

===Organizations===
In October 2011 a German left-wing militant group called the ''[[:de:Hekla-Empfangskomitee|Hekla-Empfangskomitee]]'' (Hekla Reception Committee) set at least 17 [[incendiary device]]s on railways in the Berlin area, with 2 of them going off.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/train-track-attacks-debate-over-leftist-terrorism-erupts-in-germany-a-791715.html |work=[[Der Spiegel|Spiegel Online]]: International Edition |title= Train Track Attacks: Debate over 'Leftist Terrorism' Erupts in Germany|author=Gathmann, Florian |location=[[Hamburg, Germany|Hamburg]] |date=13 October 2011}}</ref>

The [[DBU Copenhagen]] football club ''[[:da:Boldklubben Hekla|Boldklubben Hekla]]'' play at Hekla Park.