00:00If you look at a world map, there's something a bit strange.
00:02Iceland, which means land of ice, is actually green, while Greenland, named Greenland, is
00:07covered in ice.
00:08There's a reason for this, the people who first discovered Iceland and Greenland were
00:12Vikings.
00:12However, the man who first discovered Greenland, Erik Thorvaldsen, named it Greenland to make
00:17it sound appealing and lure people into migrating there.
00:19It is said.
00:20On the other hand, in the case of Iceland, since it was actually quite a livable land,
00:24a compelling hypothesis suggests that they named it Iceland to discourage people from
00:28settling there.
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