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To: Ish who wrote (672799)	2/19/2005 6:16:25 PM
From: DavesM	Respond to of 769670

Ish, I believe that story (about Iceland and Greenland) came about a few hundred years later (after the climate changed). Greenland was a Viking settlement for 500 years. Actually a thousand years ago, Greenland was indeed "green" - well, greener. Yes, the Vikings could lie about it, but after a hundred years or so, people would nave figure it out. Remember, people from Europe would have hit Iceland before Greenland, so why try to trick people about naming Greenland vs. Iceland? "Greenland was warmer in the tenth century than it is now. There were many islands teeming with birds off its western coast; the sea was excellent for fishing; and the coast of Greenland itself had many fjords where anchorage was good. At the head of the fjords there were enormous meadows full of grass, willows, junipers, birch, and wild berries. Thus Greenland actually deserved its name." answers.com "...Climate matters. It mattered to the Vikings, who settled Iceland, explored the New World, and were lured north to Greenland during a period of unusually warm weather a millennium ago. But the warmth did not last, and Viking settlements on Greenland slowly contracted as the climate cooled into the Little Ice Age...." pupress.princeton.edu "Most of the Northern Hemisphere enjoyed a warm spell from the 12th to 14th centuries when much of Greenland was really green." environment-agency.gov.uk re:"Greenland was ice and Iceland was green. A little trick the Vikings played to keep the best for themselves"