14/01/2025
Did someone say "fake news"?
🇬🇱 Greenland has never received so much attention, with Trump's threats. So it's the best time to ask... why? Why is it called "GREEN land" when it's literally one of the LEAST green places in the entire world? Why not "WHITE land"?
The story involves Erik the Red. Sidenote: he's the father of Leif Erikson, the Norse explorer who is thought to have been the first European to set foot in continental America; he is apparently the one who, around the year 990, founded the Viking village in Canada, around the year 990.
Erik the Red was banned from Iceland for murder. He founded the first Norse settlement on the island of Greenland and gave it this name in hopes that it would sound more attractive to settlers.
A very early example of disinformation?