>greenland >is full of ice >iceland >is full of volcanos

It's like going back to my Primary School geography lesson

greenland actually has culture

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>this is greenland

>>66386376
yes, a culture of depression and suicide

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>>66386493
>this is iceland

>>66386523
Sounds like my kind of place

>>66386493
Comfy.

>>66386563
There's nothing comfy about greenland.
It's just sad

>>66386493

This is weird.

>>66386493
its just a tiny fisher village
where does people go when they need major surgeries or important medicines?

>>66387082
The other side

>>66386275
>people still falling for a 1000 yo may may

iceland doesn't really mean ice land

it's ísland or some shit isn't it?

>>66387082
The biggest city, Godthåb, has about 20k people. If people can't be cured there, then they're flown to Denmark.

>>66387236

It means island with ice.

The guy who named them arrived in Iceland in winter and was freezing his balls off, he hated it there and by the summer he went to Greenland. It was green.
True story.

>>66387236
>>66387288
No.
Is = ice
Land = land
The english word island doesn't exist in Nordic languages, so it's not related to that at all.

>>66387353
woah, it doesn't exist?
I actually learned something from /int/ now

>>66386275
Yes the vikings did a lot of nasty shit, not just the raping and the pillaging but also lying.

>>66387476
>but also lying.
A marketing trick isn't lying, it's just not saying the (whole) truth. Is something else.

>>66387353
>island
But this is the Germanic-rooted one of their two words, you sure have no equivalent? We have "Eiland" which is kinda outdated/poetic, but we mostly use the Latin "Insel" (<"insula"), one of the very few examples German uses preferably a Latin word in basic speech where English uses a Germanic one (most of the time it's the other way around)

>>66387542
>"Eiland" which is kinda outdated
Are you calling Dutch outdated?

>>66387586
Kek, you do have some old Germanic words that have pretty much fallen out of use here, like "kiezen" (in modern German would be *"kiesen", but it only continues to exist in set expressions and compund participle forms such as "auserkoren" = "chosen out (of)")

>>66387542
We call it ǿ in Danish.

>>66387685
Yeah, I figure you just dropped the "-land" part

>>66387674
>"auserkoren" = "chosen out (of)"
We have that too "uitverkoren".

>>66387772
Yeah you do compounding pretty much the same. Just funny how you dropped most of the original Germanic grammar, but we dropped more of the vocabulary

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>>66386523
sounds good so far

When Greenland was first settled it didn't have a massive ice shelf, that's been there for the past 800 years or so.

>>66386563
Yeah that picture's taken during midsummer. During the winter, only a bit of low sun during the day, and very cold temps. There's a reason why the suicide rate is so high. Humans never really evolved to live in the arctic.