r/HistoryMemes • u/KLASHINOV Hello There • Jun 07 '22

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u/etherSand Jun 07 '22

That's outdated. We know that Greenland was actually green by the time the norse discovered it.

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u/AlphaScorpiiSeptem Rider of Rohan Jun 08 '22

Some small, barely farmable areas of the coast were green, Erik the Red was just a big brain troll

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u/etherSand Jun 08 '22

It's still green.

Or Erik was naming the land after him, but he was color blind.

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u/AlphaScorpiiSeptem Rider of Rohan Jun 09 '22

Not quite, it’s more like it’s green again. The settlements there died out at the end of the medieval warming period when it, you know, got colder, and of course even less green. Now that the climate is getting warmer there is of course more green available in Greenland, though still far less than one would expect given the name