Thanks all, and I agree, Lugg, they should swap names. Greenland is called that due to Erik the Red who was kicked out of Iceland for bad behaviour, and he couldn´t return to Norway.... because of bad behaviour, so he had to go even further west, so he went to Greenland. I guess he felt lonely and wanted fellow countrymen and women to join him there, so he spread the word that it was a magnificent place with green pastures, milk and honey, so he named it Greenland.
He succeeded, a great deal of Icelanders joined him, and they lived there for five hundred years, after which they mysteriously disappeared.
BTW, Erik must have been a propaganda genious, because he is also credited for finding America by many to this day (in reality he was never there as far as I know, his son, Leif was, and he is credited for it too. NONE of them discovered America, but it is clear it was discovered way before. People were getting timber from New Foundland for years before they claimed they discovered it. I even think it must have been discovered before Erik wend to Greenland with his family and followers, because recently we have found North American Indian blood in Iceland which stems from WAYYYY back. So weird. No Greenlandic genes for some reason, but Indian!
The Greenlanders call(ed) their country, the land of the humans.
....don´t know what came over me here....
