What are greenlands?

Greenland is an autonomous region of the European country of Denmark, and consists of a vast island stretching from the North Atlantic Ocean to the Arctic Ocean along the northeast coast of North...

Some danish guy named it Greenland because it sounded good. Though some people say he called it Grundland (Groundland) and somehow it became Grønland (Greenland)...

The first Sandinavian visitors observed during the summer a green coast.

he named it Greenland because it is a very big place the ice is far from the coast and the land between the ice is very green

This is because Erik the Red found it while he was banished from his home in Scandinavia for 3 years spending them traveling when he ran into green land. Since he was the first to see it he got to...