Iceland is called Iceland because thge guy who discovered it saw an ice float. In case you're wondering what is an ice float, it a is a small hunk of ice from a bigger hunk of ice that got cracked off and drifted away from the main chunk. The main chunk could have been a glacier or an iceberg. commonly drifted off from. (I think the ice float came from Greenland.)
This is an ice float. None look the same just like snowflakes.
Why is Greenland named Greenland?
Erik the Red got there during Greenland's summer because it is very green there in the south of it in the summer. The north has a glacier even in summer I'm pretty sure. If it didn't have a glacier every summer it would be a flood every summer and it would be awful to live there.
The rest is pretty complicated so I'll just copy it...
The name Greenland comes from Scandinavian settlers. In the Icelandic sagas, it is said that Norwegian-born Erik the Red was exiled from Iceland for murder. He, along with his extended family and thralls, set out in ships to find the land that was rumoured to be to the northwest. After settling there, he named the land Grænland ("Greenland"). Greenland was also called Gruntland ("Ground-land") and Engronelant (or Engroneland) on early maps. Whether green is an erroneous transcription of grunt ("ground"), which refers to shallow bays, or vice versa, is not known. The southern portion of Greenland (not covered by glacier) is indeed very green in the summer and was likely to have been even greener in Erik's time because of the Medieval Warm Period.
Erik the Red got there during Greenland's summer because it is very green there in the south of it in the summer. The north has a glacier even in summer I'm pretty sure. If it didn't have a glacier every summer it would be a flood every summer and it would be awful to live there.
The rest is pretty complicated so I'll just copy it...
The name Greenland comes from Scandinavian settlers. In the Icelandic sagas, it is said that Norwegian-born Erik the Red was exiled from Iceland for murder. He, along with his extended family and thralls, set out in ships to find the land that was rumoured to be to the northwest. After settling there, he named the land Grænland ("Greenland"). Greenland was also called Gruntland ("Ground-land") and Engronelant (or Engroneland) on early maps. Whether green is an erroneous transcription of grunt ("ground"), which refers to shallow bays, or vice versa, is not known. The southern portion of Greenland (not covered by glacier) is indeed very green in the summer and was likely to have been even greener in Erik's time because of the Medieval Warm Period.
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