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People have been wondering this for ages! | WHY IS GREENLAND ICE; AND ICELAND GREEN? | image tagged in memes,philosoraptor,roll safe think about it,geography | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
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Iceland flag | image tagged in iceland | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
Iceland is a big plus!
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Lies, it’s Jesus’ cross falling over
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Greenland is just a confused Japan flag!
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Looks like a confused Poland-Japanese flag.
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It was named that to confuse Europeans settlers
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it's good that you know your history
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Vikings like to take over every land is what I learned
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because its to troll people
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Because the vikings wanted to confuse their enemies.
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those dang vikings
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to confuse ppl
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Vikings wanted to troll people
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Because: government lies
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"All war is deception" Sun Tzu
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So back in the days Vikings went too Iceland and it was mostly just green land and green land is cold soo they’re tryna trick the other Vikings too go too green land because it’s sounds like it’s green but it’s ice.
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Because Iceland didn't want anybody in their country, and Greenland wanted people in their country, (I am a huge history nerd.)
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geography is a quirky thing
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In comes a nerd to ruin the joke
Pretty simple: The vikings named them in reverse to trick competitors into sailing to Greenland in hopes of finding green pastures and ignoring Iceland assuming it'd just be cold as a witch's tits
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i know why because the were tired of people coming there state so they called it ice land so people would think its bad and named an icy barren wasteland greenland so people would go there
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I wondered that for ages too. It was intentional. When the Vikings landed in Iceland 🇮🇸 they didn't want anyone to come and take it away from them so they decided if people thought it was cold and icy nobody would come so they named it Iceland. If people thought Greenland 🇬🇱 was covered in pretty greenery instead of being a sheet of ice people would go there instead and freeze their butts off. :)
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because the vikings swapped the names out
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Knowing the King would take the best one they were thus named to deceive him . I learned that story in Elementary school , what do they teach you these days , besides Critical Race Theory ?
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not the right story, I guess elementary school got everything wrong
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it was slavakians making sure no other people would try to come to their land, so they named greenland greenland to make everyone go to the nicer island
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hmmm
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Did you know the Vikings didn’t really wore horned helmets
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Also the reason why Iceland has a plus on its flag because it needs upvotes
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True
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early settlers named land after physical traits so when settlers discovered greenland and iceland they named them in reverse order so that others would go to greenland and find only ice
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Glad you know your history
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Raaptor
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I don't know
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They were always green lol
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