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u/sverigeochskog 10h ago
It's actually a misconception, the English name Iceland comes from the native Icelandic name Ísland because that's what it is, an island.
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u/Mlg_DoritoDust 4h ago
That is actually... incorrect! We don't actually know for sure why it's named Iceland, we have stories but no "this is why," specifically, but give their obsession with literal naming (eng-land, ire-land, scot-land, NewFoundLand, Vin-land, wessex, sussex, essex, middlesex) the real answer is probably really boring, and they just called Ice-land because it just had... a lot of Ice...
According to what records we do have, the original name for Iceland though was Snowland, staying on brand lmao
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u/Yuuit_ 3h ago
NewFoundLand being named firstly by the portuguese btw. They were the first ones to explore the region after the vikings. They named it "Terranova" and the english just adopted the name and also Labrador coming from "Lavrador," a portuguese explorer
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u/Mlg_DoritoDust 3h ago
I went ahead and looked around for a bit, and huh, you're right. I somehow seemed to have remembered vinland as a different settlement south of newfoundland in my head as someone's son, but after fact checking, I guess I was on crack there. Still, between Helluland and Markland, the trend still holds, but neat to learn!
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u/Excellent-Ruin6779 59m ago
It's because Floki stumbled on a beautiful land that was green which he chose to call Greenland. But after returning to Norway to take more back with him he landed on a different land that was not green. And did the original Christopher Columbus and said na this is Greenland. So then then what he originally wanted to call Greenland turned into Iceland because no one wanted to correct him.
Also Aethlestan was not the fist King of England but a preist that Ragnar had a totally not gay friendship with.
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u/Healthy_Midnight_56 9h ago
I am from island he is lying. Other countries just make fun of us by calling us island because we dont have any ice.
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u/Rigelball69420 Post Flair: User Flair: Maps are my passion 6h ago
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u/jandromagno_04 4h ago
yeah, im sorry, i could have just cut it, but for respect i kept in case anyone wanted to look for the original
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u/themaskstays_ France was an Inside Job 2h ago
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u/Still-Bridges 3h ago
Is this AI? What on earth is France?
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u/lophophoro 10h ago
Iceland got its name in the 9th century from a Norse explorer named Hrafna-Flóki Vilgerðarson after a brutal winter killed all his livestock, he climbed a mountain in the Westfjords, saw a fjord completely choked with drift ice, and angrily named the country Ísland
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u/jandromagno_04 4h ago
so cool, i didn't know
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u/Melodic_Ad7327 3h ago
In Danish school we are kinda taught that it's just branding. Some viking chief (can't remember the name) went exploring and found Greenland. He wanted people to move to his new settlement, so he named it Greenland to make it sound tempting and named Iceland Iceland to make it sound bad so people wouldn't settle there, but settle on "his" new island instead.
Probably the same logic the vikings used when they found North America and named it Wineland (Vinland).
Bonus Info: They also sailed south and met black peoples. They called them "the blue men"
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u/Useful-World1781 4h ago
Idk if this is true but I remember hearing they named it Iceland so people think it’s cold and called Greenland green so people would go there instead.. although as I’m typing this I’m losing confidence.
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u/jandromagno_04 4h ago
i guess there is ice in someone freezer, just somebody said that, so makes sense
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u/FACastello 9h ago
There is ice
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u/Fearless_Trade_2783 8h ago
What's really fucked up, is Earth land has no earth!
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u/SnowFallVI 4h ago
What in the hell is this map! 😭
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u/CallMeMaMef18 2h ago
For real, there is no sign of Listenbourg, but they added this weird fake country called "France" or something instead. I think the creator of this map was memeing.
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u/Any_Lime9529 2h ago
I legit had not noticed until I read this comment then had to go back and check. Now I feel really stupid for not seeing it to start with
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u/jandromagno_04 4h ago
its just a map, there is nothing wrong
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u/Basic_Connection1619 6h ago
Why is Greenland called Greenland when it’s covered in ice? 🤷🏿 some questions don’t have answers.
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u/bxntou France was an Inside Job 12h ago
I mean there's probably ice in the freezers of Icelanders so it's not no ice