Why is Greenland named so misleadingly?

Erik the Red led a group of Icelanders and Norwegians to settle on the west coast of Greenland in AD 982. He named it Greenland, hoping to attract settlers, and falsely claimed it had better farmland than Iceland. Leif Erikson named a part of Canada “Vinland.” Greenland is the largest island in the world with […]

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