it's weird really
2007-08-22 16:44:34 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
Maybe this would explain it to you:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aqka4IS36.M.EP7TtNSSaLMjzKIX?qid=20060619045335AAl8OXn
2007-08-22 16:59:40 · answer #1 · answered by marcelino angelo (BUSY) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One story is that since these were originally discovered by the Vikings, they named them such to avoid competition.
In other words, who would want to go settle in a place called "Iceland"? Especially if they had been to "Greenland" and saw only ice and snow!
So everyone else left Iceland alone and the Vikings and their descendants would not be bothered by invaders or settlers.
2007-08-22 16:55:06 · answer #2 · answered by idiot detector 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont know about iceland. However, Greenland was named Greenland because the first Europeans wanted to encurage more people to come to Greenland even though it was white. So they just used this name to encurage people.
2007-08-22 17:16:13 · answer #3 · answered by Dreamer 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Im not sure if this is really the logical explanation but heres what i think... there was this one guy who was living on greenland while it was called iceland because of the ice. he was lonely cuz he was the only one living there, so he changed icelands name to greenland and greenlands name to iceland, and then lotsa ppl moveed there but then they realized it was diff. than they had expected but they stayed anyways! :P
2007-08-22 16:54:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
" called this new land "Greenland" because he "believed more people would go thither if the country had a beautiful name," according to one of the Icelandic chronicles (Hermann, 1954) although Greenland, as a whole, could not be considered "green." Additionally, the land was not very good for farming. Nevertheless, Eric was able to draw thousands to the three areas"
2016-05-20 06:17:55 · answer #5 · answered by chanda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a settler went to iceland and it was all grass and he wanted it to himself and named it iceland so no one would want to go there and so when other people came to greenland, it was icy and iceland was green.
2014-02-27 11:59:30 · answer #6 · answered by Tara 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its been said the Vikings named them that way to confuse their enemies.
2007-08-22 23:13:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was to confuse people. they wanted the better island for themselves, and they other island they didnt want, cuz it was all ice and rock, so they switched the names
2007-08-22 17:21:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you would have to ask the dude that named them...of course if it was a man..that would just explain it all....
2007-08-29 06:14:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
why is the sky blue?
2007-08-22 17:31:01 · answer #10 · answered by dantedemitre 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋