Despite not being GREEN at all y is it called greenland?

Question

Despite not being GREEN at all y is it called greenland?

Answer 1

It was because when the vikings discovered that island earth was passing a warm time despite this place is frozen all the time. When this time passed the initial colonization return to Denmark.

We are melting since 5.000.000 millions ago, but this kind of event is not continuous.

Answer 2

When it's not covered in ice and snow Greenland is indeed green. It has very few and small vegetation, mostly grass and only on the south.

Answer 3

Must it be green to be GREENLAND ?Ask the person who name it....And why are you named JAMES ?

Answer 4

Because the land used to be green and Vikings named it like that. Now it's just sheer cold out there.

Answer 5

It was an early propaganda spin.  The Vikings named Iceland, which is inhabitable, Iceland to make perspective colonizers pass it by for "Greenland" which is not so inhabitable.

Answer 6

i ALWAYS wondered that when i use to look at a globe in my room everyday when i was six. But, nah I got over it eventually.

Answer 7

The moss that grows on the lava rock.

Answer 8

it was name so by the Vikings as diversion for invaders and new comers if you notice that there's another country call Iceland which was were the Viking's really lived and hold their treasures.

Answer 9

Despite not being Eng at all y is it called England?

Search me....

Answer 10

It was a lot greener when it was settled by people from Denmark (Viking is not a nationality, it is an activity).  Things were warmer then.

Answer 11

Good question.

Answer 12

It was a scam by Eric the Red to try to convince people to live there (It's possible in a narrow area along the southern coast).

Iceland is a scam name too - to keep people away.  Because of ocean currents, it's warm enough to be very livable.

Answer 13

Because it was until the euros arrived and cut down all the trees

Greece used to be forested, along with many other nations. Does the word deforestation mean anything to you?

Well Greenland was.