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Read Today. Nails it. (Original Post) kairos12 Jan 22 OP
Release the trumpstein files Clouds Passing Jan 22 #1
Most of Greenland lies under ICE. Kid Berwyn Jan 22 #2
I'd always heard that it was called Greenland to try to entice people to colonize it. True/Not True? ihaveaquestion Jan 22 #3
Yes, the non-Vikings were encouraged to go there instead of Iceland. Kid Berwyn Jan 22 #5
True. OGBuzz Jan 22 #7
That's only counting the files that weren't buried with Ivana. ChicagoTeamster Jan 22 #4
Or used as toilet paper by the orange menace (n/t) Moostache Jan 22 #6
Excellent!! 😆🤓 littlemissmartypants Jan 22 #8
We need to call it "Epsteinland" FakeNoose Jan 22 #9
Hahaha Joinfortmill Jan 22 #10

Kid Berwyn

(23,631 posts)
2. Most of Greenland lies under ICE.
Thu Jan 22, 2026, 10:24 AM
Jan 22

Everybody except the orange traitor knows the famous Viking guy Eric the Red said that’s why it’s not called Iceland.

Kid Berwyn

(23,631 posts)
5. Yes, the non-Vikings were encouraged to go there instead of Iceland.
Thu Jan 22, 2026, 11:21 AM
Jan 22

Morons and greedy despots to the present day get confused. The Portuguese, centuries later, also practiced geographic disinformation in order to maintain their proprietary trade routes. Portugal had discovered the best winds to get around Cape Horn were reached by first sailing west toward the unknown horizon, before heading south to catch the easterlies around Southern Africa and on into the Indian Ocean. No maps and no tales got out to threaten their trade monopoly with India and China for a century wherein Portugal became the wealthiest nation on earth.

OGBuzz

(88 posts)
7. True.
Thu Jan 22, 2026, 12:10 PM
Jan 22

I've been wondering about this as well and I read that it was a clever marketing tactic to attract settlers from Iceland in times of Eric the Red, around 980 AD. I keep checking for weather in Nuuk and they are often higher than in my area, and I am roughly 900 miles south of Nuuk's latitude. Currently Nuuk is 48 degrees fahrenheit, my city is at 5 degrees.

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