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Old 08-04-2012, 04:57 AM   #8594
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Originally Posted by Daithi View Post
It looks like I got Iceland & Greenland confused. I think of Greenland as being the smaller more idyllic island with green mountains and a place I'd like to visit. I think of Iceland as a massive island of ice and glaciers, and a place I'd like my mother-in-law to visit. Apparently it is just the opposite. I think it is a marketing ploy by their evil tourism industries.
This was on the radio just the other day. Greenland was indeed so named to attract people to emigrate there, by the Norwegian Erik the Red who was exiled there.


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