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To: henkster
I don't wonder because it was not a misnomer at the time the Vikings discovered it around 980 A.D.
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Medieval Warm Period ring a bell?

Add an enthusiastic Viking 'real estate developer' by the name of Eric Thorvaldsson (Erik the Red), Lief Erikson's father as well. Easier to get settlers if the name does not have 'ice' in it, besides, Iceland was already taken!

16 posted on 12/09/2016 12:45:28 PM PST by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: SES1066

Yes, when I first studied history I was told that the Vikings misnamed them Iceland and Greenland because they wanted to discourage settlers from coming to one of them, and encourage them to come to the other.


19 posted on 12/09/2016 12:48:38 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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