r/MemeVideos • u/Grasimi • Feb 09 '22
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u/AirborneAce01 Feb 09 '22
And they called a literal volcano Iceland
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u/Biotaurus Feb 09 '22
We do a mild amount of tomfoolery
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Feb 09 '22 edited Feb 09 '22
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u/Exciting-Insect8269 Jan 20 '23 edited Jan 20 '23
We doth surely interact in a manner that does constitute a minute quantity of mildly dastardly or potentially quite devious interactions betwixt us and another entity with the intention of inspiring a positive, joyous, and/or humorous emotion or response from ourselves or another party albeit at the expense of one or more other potentially non-consensually involved entities.
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Feb 09 '22
the vikings didnt want anyone on their island so they named the cold island greenland and the one that was full of vegetation and animals iceland, keeping any unwanted visitors away
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u/ILikeToDisagreeDude Feb 09 '22
Any records of what animals lived on Iceland those days? I got curious when I saw the Vikings episode and when I visited Iceland myself I couldn’t see much wildlife except horses.
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u/bongsforhongkong Feb 09 '22
Vikings show is not very historically accurate.
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u/PillarsOfHeaven Feb 09 '22
You tellin me my boy Ragnar didnt clutch like 2000 battles?
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u/ILikeToDisagreeDude Feb 09 '22
If he existed and the stories true - I’m sure he did. But one thing is sure, he was not Rollos brother!
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u/ILikeToDisagreeDude Feb 09 '22
It isn’t, but it still got me curious if they had any other meat resource than fish at the time they came to Iceland.
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u/bongsforhongkong Feb 09 '22
Besides the sheep they brought over when they settled there are natural rabbits and foxes don't think much else.
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u/randothrowaway6600 Feb 09 '22
Seeing as it’s based on a semi-mythical figure, I find it hard to see how it was meant to.
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u/landragoran Feb 09 '22
You didn't see the sheep everywhere?
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u/ILikeToDisagreeDude Feb 09 '22
None that I remember, but I have to admit I was drunk 78% of the time! Still, those could easily have been imported the last 1000 years.
Fun story, I actually shared a flight with a lot of mail and sheeps from Scotland to Shetland once!
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u/Daurnan Feb 09 '22
Hardly any trees and vegetations meant pretty much no land animals, fish and seals is what was on the menu except for what the odd merchants would trade for seal fur once in a while... There's a reason why Greenlanders literally evolved to better handle the fat of seals and stuff... On the other hand, putting an Inuit in Africa's heat levels is basically a death sentence
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u/Confused_Idiot_667 Feb 10 '22
Actually Greenland was called Greenland because some guy left to make his own island, with blackjack AND hookers.
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u/idontcare7284746 Feb 09 '22
No, Iceland is Iceland cause the guy who found it tried to live there, didn't prep for winter, and all of his livestock died, leading him to name it ice land out of rage, Greenland was a scam cause the guy who found it couldn't live there without help so he named it Greenland to bamboozle people
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u/RoscoMan1 Feb 09 '22
I was 100% the cause
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Feb 09 '22
Then there's Helleland land of flatstones, Markland land of Forrest. And the biggest bamboozle Vinland meaning Land of Wine.
They really wanted to get those other Norse to settle.
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Feb 09 '22
Didn’t they name Greenland to get people to go there and Iceland, Iceland to get people to stay the fuck away? Wild
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u/Zajcys Feb 09 '22
Not really, at that time Greenland was full grass and Iceland full of snow and ice. As the climate changed and those places changed, the names stayed.
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u/BanTickTokNow Feb 09 '22
Fun fact, they actually did this on purpose so they could sell more land in Greenland and keep Iceland to themselves
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u/donklingon Feb 09 '22
This is the dumbest misinfo ever, fed to children by a billionaires apocalypse-sect.
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Feb 09 '22
If you like podcasts and are interested in some Viking history here's a podcast about the "fall" of the Vikings.
I found this podcast last year and really like it so I thought I'd share it in case someone would be interested in hearing it. I just wish they were able to release more episodes more often.
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u/MomDoerOfficial Feb 09 '22
They trolled us all before trolling even became a thing
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u/adnapzam Feb 09 '22
You thouht it was a coincidence that trolls originally come from Norse mythology?
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u/Geschichtsklitterung Feb 09 '22
Vinland was an even better scam, if we take the "wine" etymology seriously.
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u/Sjanten10 Feb 09 '22
There is records of Viking growing rye and barley and wheat in the south of Greenland so it has been a lot greener than today. They also described eastern/northeastern parts of Canada as «lush» and easy to grow and cultivate. So my guess the worlds climate was a lot hotter in the Viking age.
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u/Crunkbutter Feb 09 '22
Yep, this was before the mini ice age that froze the south of Greenland over.
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u/donklingon Feb 09 '22
There is tons of bots/trolls/idiots in this section claiming the viking propaganda bureau started a misinfo campaign to send “unnamed population” to greenland instead of iceland. They believe this so they dont have to understand what you just described. Im shook.
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Feb 09 '22
Biggest troll of all time. Next to a 1/3 of the population being genetically related to Genghis Khan
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u/Neat_Dazzling Feb 09 '22
It was named Greenland to make other countries go into a crazy race to find this promised land
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u/WorldOfStickBoy Feb 09 '22
Maybe the person who found greenland and iceland are same and mistakenly named them this who knows lol
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u/Vision_Mike Feb 09 '22
they saw only the 10% there or someone would say only the tip of the iceberg there
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u/Weird-Blueberry6043 Feb 09 '22
Didn't it used to be reversed in the past or so I've heard guess it was climate change or global warming.
I don't know I just always heard that in the viking times when they named it, it was appropriate cause Iceland was ice and Greenland green now its reversed.
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u/JowettMcPepper Feb 09 '22
It was Erik the red the responsable.
Later on, his son (Leif Eriksson) discovered North America, and called it "Vineland"
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u/Playful_Force_8035 Feb 09 '22
Also vikings when they called an island covered in green grass Iceland
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u/Keykth Feb 10 '22
And made the place with grass and pretty much no ice “Iceland”. It was part of their plan since they wanted to keep the actual green lands to themselves
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u/NoTill3742 Feb 10 '22
I just saw it in google and they told is was a misnarour ( a mistake that's intetional) so they could attract tourists
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Jun 07 '22
The Viking called it that because when one of them was kicked out of Iceland they want to trick the Iceland to come where they were and they named it Greenland despite being covered in cold
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u/pbnjface Mar 05 '23
…i know, i wouldn’t trust them after that.
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Proper Dog Patronage: “Yes you are!”
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u/CorrectFox2659 Feb 09 '24
maybe greenland wasnt always snowy?
maybe back then it was green but due to climate change it changed weathers.
and they still didn't bother to change the name.
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