Iceland’s banking system has collapsed, its economy is in turmoil and its volcano has blotted the sky with ash.

As a result, things have never looked better for the small cadre of Icelandic translators who render the North Germanic tongue of 320,000 island-dwellers into something the rest of the world can understand.

The remnants of Iceland’s three major banks conduct creditors’ meetings in Icelandic. Many of the creditors are foreign. Interpreters are needed.

See: The Wall Street Journal