Why is Greenland icy and not green?

@FQT said in #1:
> Check it out.

Sorry for my tardiness, I was tending to my tardigrades. I have admired the name of this country a long time. First time I became aware of it, it made think of grass. Its a safe bet there is grass there sometimes.

I remember seeing grass in pictures of another place in that same vicinity, Iceland.

@Night_Twinshop said in #20:
> So,the Vikings took over Iceland , and the Icelandians tried to trick them,so they called it Greenland,and Iceland Iceland.
There is no evidence of anyone ever lived in Iceland, before around the 9th century, when the Norsemen first showed up.

I can just imagine the first failed adventure to Iceland:
A couple of Norwegian vikings, drunk obviously, but merry and cheerful none the less.
While sitting around the evening bonfire, bellies filled with meat and mjøl.

"Hey Knud, wanna go rampaging some new village this year?"

"Sorry Ingólfr, I can't, wife wants me to pillage and plunder Lindisfarne again this summer, she apparently was so jealous of the wool dress, that Bjørn brought his wife last year. Can you believe, it hardly had any blood stains."

Ingólfr contemplating that for a moment, thinking how Bjørns wife was so attractive, that day, you could hardly tell she have had 5 children already.
"True that was a nice dress, but come on Knud, let's try invading someplace new, ain't you tired of England anyway?, it's so cold and wet! Let's go someplace warm"

"Warm?" Knud chewed on the words for a moment. "Warm!" Smiling.

"Yes warm. Everyone knows the sun rises in the east, then travel across the south and disappears in the west.... So... Where do you think the sun sleep?... It is obvious, it sleeps in the north, let's go bathe in the relaxing sun. Surely there is treasure and lightly dressed women in the halls of the north"

Pondering for a moment, Knud finally realized
"Well... I am kind of tired of going to church every summer... to pillage, it's so boring, them monks turning the other cheek, really blunts the blade of my axe."

"Great, so let's go someplace else, somewhere new and exciting, where there is a plenty of gold and plenty of... beautiful... exotic... women"
Ingólfr said with a smirk.

Knud suddenly lustful of adventure, filled with imaginations of woman and gold, mostly women.
"Oh boy, oh boy, okay, let me just get my axe, this is going to be so much fun"

Ingólfr & Knud arriving in Iceland with the biggest hangover... Winds are howling:
"Hey Knud, sorry... thought there would be people... though there would be woman"

"Screw that, look at the size of them walrus tusks!" Knud yelled in euphoria. "Bet they would look great on my helmet!"

@NaturalBornTraveller said in #23:
> There is no evidence of anyone ever lived in Iceland, before around around the 9th century, when the Norsemen first showed up.
>
> I can just imagine their failed adventure:
> A couple of Norwegian vikings, drunk obviously, but merry and cheerful none the less.
> While sitting around the evening bonfire, bellies filled with meat and mjøl.
> "Hey Knud, wanna go rampaging on some new village this year?"
> "Sorry Ingólfr, I can't, wife wants me to pillage and plunder Lindisfarne again this summer, she apparently was so jealous of the wool dress, that Bjørn brought his wife last year, it hardly had any blood stains on it."
>
> "Come on Knud, let's try someplace new, ain't you tired of England anyway?, it's so cold and wet!"
>
> "Well, I am kind of tired of going to pillage a church every summer, it's so boring, them monks turning the other cheek, really blunts the blade of my axe."
>
> "Great, so let's go somewhere else, someplace new and exciting, where there is a plenty of gold and beautiful exotic women"
> "Oh boy, oh boy, okay, let me just get my axe, this is going to be so much fun"
>
> Ingólfr & Knud arriving in Iceland with the biggest hangover... Winds are howling:
> "Hey Knud, sorry... thought there would be people... though there would be woman"
>
> "Screw that, look at the size of them walrus tusks!" Knud yelled in euphoria. "Bet they would look great on my helmet!"

d*mn it's so funny... (except for the monks).

the town where I live in France was pillaged at least 5 times by the Vikings in around twenty years, then, the Vikings had installed an advanced base 100km further down, therefore in Vendée. Knud could probably have plundered plenty of beautiful monasteries

Because theres a lot of cold cold water on top of most of the land.

Well it can't be hot and Green that far North.