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Traditional Catholic Faith => Funny Stuff for Catholics => Topic started by: Matthew on November 21, 2012, 09:01:13 AM

Title: Greenland and Iceland
Post by: Matthew on November 21, 2012, 09:01:13 AM

I agree!

Title: Greenland and Iceland
Post by: Catholic Samurai on November 21, 2012, 11:16:14 AM

Eric the Red's marketing.  :smile:

Title: Greenland and Iceland
Post by: ShepherdofSheep 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!

Title: Greenland and Iceland
Post by: ShepherdofSheep 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.

Title: Greenland and Iceland
Post by: Matthew 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

Title: Greenland and Iceland
Post by: Telesphorus on January 07, 2013, 06:35:08 PM

(http://www.history.com/images/media/slideshow/viking-heroes-and-homes/hvalsey-church-ruins.jpg)

Title: Greenland and Iceland
Post by: Ck104 on January 09, 2013, 12:27:32 AM

Those Vikings were quite the jokers and pranksters indeed.

Title: Greenland and Iceland
Post by: ggreg 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.

Title: Greenland and Iceland
Post by: Graham on February 24, 2013, 01:06:40 PM

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

Title: Greenland and Iceland
Post by: Telesphorus 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

Title: Greenland and Iceland
Post by: jen51 on February 24, 2013, 08:49:47 PM

Quote from: Telesphorus

(http://www.history.com/images/media/slideshow/viking-heroes-and-homes/hvalsey-church-ruins.jpg)

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

Title: Greenland and Iceland
Post by: poche on April 28, 2013, 12:27:07 AM

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

Title: Greenland and Iceland
Post by: PerEvangelicaDicta 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?  

Title: Greenland and Iceland
Post by: poche 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.