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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat do you know about Greenland?
Greenland is featured in today's news which led me to want to learn more about the history of this island. Along the way I discovered the music of Nive Nielsen.
She and her band are amazing!
True Dough
(17,091 posts)It's returning to its "green" namesake, and that's not good, by all accounts.
SCantiGOP
(13,856 posts)Is a very early example of a PR effort. Erik the Red knew that he needed to make the area sound attractive if he was going to continue to be funded for exploration.
mia
(8,356 posts)In Greenlandic it's Kalaallit Nunaat
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)One is to get a good guidebook with examples of the language. The other is to use any pronouncement you think fits, in the presence of the locals. They'll probably set you straight in a kindly way! Or beat you up and tell you to go back where you came from! Actually, I'll listen to the audio to see if my interpretation is close!
ret5hd
(20,433 posts)sakabatou
(42,082 posts)Good post!
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)about how a warming cycle in the weather made it a good place for Eric The Red (an Icelander)
to settle (and put space between himself and certain Icelandic authorities around 1,000 AD). He came up with calling it "Greenland" to scam potential settlers to relocate even though very little of the island was green. The settlers tried but it didn't last and I'm sure the natives who were well-adapted to living on the island probably shed tears of joy as the last of the vikings sailed away.
The Vikings had a traveling bone, as some people say, and they couldn't stay put. Leif Erickson (son of Eric The Red) and some of them found what is Newfoundland in modern Canada and established a settlement there at a place named L'Anse Aux Meadows (Las Vegas means "the meadows" in Spanish) and perhaps another at a place called Point Rosee. It seems that the natives/indigenous people were not very friendly but the Vikings did establish the first settlements, if only short-lived, in North America, beating Columbus and his Spaniards by around 500 years. If you don't think that the Caribbean is adjacent to North America, look at a map.
There's lots of information available online for history buffs.
I'll listen to the music link provided. Can't have too much music, I always say!
*edited to correct historical errors*
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