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Dan TheBookMan danust2012 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 13 21:39:40 UTC 2020


That also seems to be another folk etymology that’s probably misleading:

https://www.icelandreview.com/ask-ir/iceland-name/

And Iceland certainly has its share of snow and ice. 

And Greenland was probably named when it was greener (especially the region Vikings settled) during to a warmer climate:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/06/iceland-greenland-name-swap/

(I do get the joke: the folk etymology backstory is funny. But let’s take it too seriously.)

Regards,

Dan
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> On Mar 13, 2020, at 1:47 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Iceland was so-named to keep people from going there.  bill w
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