I’m sure I talk for ALOT of people when I ask this, but…………..?

Why is Greenland ice, and Iceland Green???

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Answer:
because a loong time ago when there was an attack on a certain place (im not sure who attacked and the name of the places sorry) the people that were attacked wanted to confuse the attackers of where it was nicer which would have been the place with more green

so they named the green place iceland and the iceplace green land to confuse the attackers so they wouldn't go destry the nice place and end up traveling toa bad cold place.

the attackers traveled on a ship (not pirates) and conquered the place they attacked so.. yeah hope that helped :DD

again sorry i didnt know the place they attacked or the name of the attackers)

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Answer:
Iceland is, relative to other European nations, very icy and so it would have seemed the most obvious name to it's 10th century Scandinavian settlers. Vatnajökull ice cap, for example, has more ice than all the glaciers of continental europe put together.

Greenland was reputedly so named by it's discoverer, the viking Eric the Red, to make it sound more pleasant (although this might just be folklore). He was exiled from Iceland for manslaughter, and so must have wanted to make his new settlement sound more attractive than that of his enemies.

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