Roger Crofts is a geographer I have met a few times who is associated with the Scottish Association of Geography Teachers and worked with a wide range of organisations in academic contexts for many decades.
While looking for something else I came across a book he had co-written which explores the landscape of Iceland.
Although the book came out quite a while ago, it is well worth a look.
PDF download of book - free to download.
The book features a number of excellent rhymes from the past, describing the landscape and its problems for residents, particularly when the lack of vegetation led to sand problems.
Rev. Björn Halldórsson after a severe sandstorm in February 1763. Icelanders and visitors who have experienced the sand storms in the interior and on the coast, and seen farm houses disappearing under the sand and others re-appearing out of the sand after the latest storm, have constantly marvelled that the sand can be captured and its effects quelled
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