i went to iceland 
, here are some pictures
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I've been deceived
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The story goes that Iceland
is called Iceland because in the 10th century, the Norwegian King 
Flóki Vilgerðardon came to Iceland 
, xe ventured into the local mountains and saw the vast amount of ice fjords, which is why xe went on to call it ice land. Although it is not a incontrovertible, testable, and repeatable proof because most likely they colonizers settled in the east and had to transverse one of the biggest glaciers in iceland (and in the whole world), called the Vatnajökull, and after their expedition trough it they probably got inspired from the terrain and decided to name it Iceland
About Greenland, it is said that when Erik the Red came to island in the 10th century, it was not as covered in ice as it is now (in the 14th century there was a drop in temperature that made the weather colder), so when he saw the greenery sceneries, he decided he would call it Greenland
It is worth noting that many of these stories are not 100 percent fact checked
and there are plenty more that range from esoteric to possible so :8
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no, he literally named it so to attract people, since he had been banished from his own lands
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Yeah Erik the Red was banned by IRL mods from Iceland which is what led him to transverse trough the icelandic sea to land in Greenland and supposedly was a modern day equivalent of a grifter by calling it
in order to bring permanent settlers into the island, but I still don't buy that version of the history 
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Back then Greenland was very green. Norse settlers had plenty of small towns across the eastern shore. They lasted until the 18th century even, and the Danish king was like "OKAY" the waters have finally settled down since the 1500s, let's go check on them.
Greenland has/had plenty of wood too.
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Greenland isn't made of green
either.
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Classic Viking prank STILL getting neighbors over 1000 years later
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