Whats with the name?

The name of this project, Svipugöng, doesn't exactly roll of the tounge, but it's the best I could come up with. It's Gauntlet, just in Icelandic.  It means roughly "whip tunnel" or "whip path" and that is kind of appropriate. Except here there is no path, no whips and no tunnels. But apart from that, it fits :)