I am listening to Michael Savage and he played a sound byte of a geology professor/author, who claimed greenland was given the name of greenland because of the environment that used to be present. Is that true? I learned in my schooling that it was called so because the vikings wanted to fool their pursuers by calling the icy, cold region greenland and the actual greenland iceland. What do you "scholars" say?
2006-07-31 13:29:52 · 7 answers · asked by bangmika2 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
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2006-07-31 13:33:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Vikings story is more accepted. I wasn't there, I don't know. But I'd be more willing to believe the Vikings story, because there is no way the climate of a land mass could change so drastically in a few hundred years. If Greenland had been discovered three thousand years ago, I'd be more inclined to believe the alternate story.
2006-07-31 13:41:17 · answer #2 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Vikings did it. I don't know what Savage is talking about. Erik the Red named Greenland because he wanted Viking to immigrate there. He called it this to fool people into coming because it was a giant ice-box.
Iceland on the other hand is quite nice and had too many people going there. They started calling it Iceland so people would think it was a giant ice-box and stop going there.
2006-07-31 13:38:02 · answer #3 · answered by bumpocooper 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
true, because they believed they could keep the vikings away from the women of Iceland, who were beautiful, I don't know what the women of Greenland were,,,,
2006-07-31 13:36:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leif Erickson
2006-07-31 13:41:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the vikings
2006-07-31 13:33:05 · answer #6 · answered by brokenbones 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-07-31 13:35:02 · answer #7 · answered by nick m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋