Author Topic: Greenland and Iceland (Read 3512 times)

Matthew · « **on:** November 21, 2012, 09:01:13 AM »

I agree!

Catholic Samurai · « **Reply #1 on:** November 21, 2012, 11:16:14 AM »

Eric the Red's marketing. :smile:

ShepherdofSheep · « **Reply #2 on:** January 07, 2013, 11:50:20 AM »

Iceland is gorgeous! And being an island in a remote location(with a ban on importing animals), they have some of the purest breeds of livestock in the world. Most notable are their Icelandic sheep and horses (don't call them ponies... :scared2:).

I'd love to visit there someday!

ShepherdofSheep · « **Reply #3 on:** January 07, 2013, 11:51:46 AM »

There are sheep on Greenland too- these look remarkably like Icelandics to me- but I wonder if they have other breeds there as well.

Matthew · « **Reply #4 on:** January 07, 2013, 06:15:16 PM »

To quote the song "Donegal Danny" sung by Ronnie Drew,

For Greenland is a barren land
a land that bears no green;
where the ice and snow
and the whale fishes blow
and the daylight seldom seen

Telesphorus · « **Reply #5 on:** January 07, 2013, 06:35:08 PM »

Ck104 · « **Reply #6 on:** January 09, 2013, 12:27:32 AM »

Those Vikings were quite the jokers and pranksters indeed.

ggreg · « **Reply #7 on:** February 24, 2013, 09:03:29 AM »

Quote from: ShepherdofSheep

Iceland is gorgeous! And being an island in a remote location(with a ban on importing animals), they have some of the purest breeds of livestock in the world. Most notable are their Icelandic sheep and horses (don't call them ponies... :scared2:).

I'd love to visit there someday!

There is a Groupon deal from the UK at the moment, flight and three nights hotel for 300 dollars.

Graham · « **Reply #8 on:** February 24, 2013, 01:06:40 PM »

I've read that Greenland was named because the water around it looks green.

Telesphorus · « **Reply #9 on:** February 24, 2013, 08:42:50 PM »

When the Vikings first settled on Greenland there were forests and the ground could be easily dug.

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In 1492, the Pope complained that no bishop had been able to visit Greenland for 80 years on account of the ice

http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/lia/end_of_vikings_greenland.html

jen51 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 24, 2013, 08:49:47 PM »

Quote from: Telesphorus

What a refreshingly beautiful picture. That's a hillside i'd be content to sit on and gaze upon for hours.

poche · « **Reply #11 on:** April 28, 2013, 12:27:07 AM »

That name was given before the "little ice age."

PerEvangelicaDicta · « **Reply #12 on:** May 01, 2013, 09:56:44 PM »

Quote from: poche

That name was given before the "little ice age."

I'm curious why your comment warranted a thumbs down?

poche · « **Reply #13 on:** May 02, 2013, 12:17:43 AM »

Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta

Quote from: poche
That name was given before the "little ice age."

I'm curious why your comment warranted a thumbs down?

I am curious too. The climate changes over the centuries. It sometimes gets warmer and sometimes gets colder. The cooling down of the climate in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was considered to be a factor in the dying out of the Viking population in Greenland.