It just doesn't make sense.
2007-07-09 13:37:36 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
These names were made by the Norse. It was a ploy to make people stay away from the lush island of Iceland. It was a naming game...
Hope this helps...
2007-07-09 13:44:15 · answer #1 · answered by Simple Man Of God 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The question is in accordance with a defective premise and the solutions thusfar are the nicely known, completely incorrect answer. The question: Iceland isn't all green. Greenland isn't all icy. specific, Greenland has a larger % of its land floor glaciated, yet Iceland nonetheless has the main important glacier in Europe, as an occasion, on an identical time as there are forests (not *tall* forests, strategies you) in Greenland. I stay in Iceland. It became 15C (60F) right this moment in Reykjavík and human beings have been complaining appropriate to the warmth. i'm not kidding you. The solutions: there is rather no info that this became accomplished to "confuse enemies" or for propaganda. The naming for Iceland is extremely nicely documented; the call became chosen by making use of Flóki Vilgerðarson, who named it after seeing %. ice drifting by making use of in the process the wintry climate at Barðaströnd. Greenland became named by making use of Eiríkr Þórvaldsson (Erik the crimson), who - after crusing for an prolonged time and seeing not something yet %. ice and frozen mountains - discovered green pastures in the south and southwest area of the island (that's the place the colonies have been wide-unfold).
2016-12-14 04:06:03 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only the inland parts of Greenland are icy, just for the record. In fact today, it was near 70F here in Qaanaaq (Thule) in northwestern Greenland (several hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle). I think Greenland will become greener and greener as the temperatures continue to climb over the years..
2007-07-11 07:43:58 · answer #3 · answered by Bach 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He did that so people could use that line in movies and in yahoo questions.
Deal with it... greenland is icy and iceland is green.
2007-07-09 13:51:39 · answer #4 · answered by guppy137 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just in the news today, Greenland was green much closer in the past than scientists thought.
2007-07-09 13:44:44 · answer #5 · answered by 87GN 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Doesn't make sense but God didn't name them. Try the Danes. They never make sense. Like: why is denmark considered ultra-progressive when it's the last major colonial power on earth? Greenland is a colony of Denmark,and it's the size of Mexico.
2007-07-09 13:42:09 · answer #6 · answered by Galahad 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Well I can explain it. The Vikings wanted to encourage settlers to move to Greenland, so they named them that way. Where would you go based on the names? Ancient propaganda is great!
2007-07-09 13:44:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why does the world say one thing and God says the other?
Why does God say one thing and the world says the other?
Doesn't make sense does it?
Or does it!!!!
2007-07-09 13:53:00 · answer #8 · answered by WillRogerswannabe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was not always this way. Archeologist now say that there is evidence that Greenland was once indeed Green.
2007-07-09 13:43:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I was told that the people who named those countries did that so that the vikings couldnt find them or something. They would get screwed up because they wend looking for a frozen country, and end up at the green one because it was CALLED iceland. Something like that. (i dont know all the specifics...sorry!)
I hope this helped, not likely though!
2007-07-09 13:42:32 · answer #10 · answered by 17*mezzo*17 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋