Alas, the apple didn’t fall removed from the birch tree and Erik was kicked out of Iceland for homicide after a dispute with a neighbor (who presumably borrowed his lawnmover and didn’t return it) resulted in various deaths. We’ve all been there.
So Erik rocked up in Greenland, changing into the primary viking on the island. He’s credited with coining the identify “inexperienced land” as both a) crafty advertising trick to lure folks there, or b) as a result of in outdated norse, the phrase “inexperienced” meant “not within the slightest bit inexperienced.”
One in every of Erik’s sons was Leif Eriksson, who was the primary European to succeed in North America — some 500 years earlier than that slacker Christoper Columbus.
By the way, 400 years after settling in Greenland, the vikings deserted the island partly, in accordance with researchers from Harvard and Penn State universities, due to rising sea ranges brought on by climatic shift. Sure, the vikings had been anxious about local weather change. Woke!
Which brings us properly (if skipping greater than 1,000 years) to the current day, when Donald the Orange has his sights set firmly on Greenland.
So eager is Trump on buying Greenland for the U.S. that he had Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance (taking part in the roles of fine cop and bizarre cop) meet with the Danish and Greenlandic international ministers in Washington this week. On a scale of 1 to Ambushed Like Zelenskyy Was, it was a few 5; not a catastrophe however problematic sufficient that Lars Løkke Rasmussen of Denmark and Vivian Motzfeldt of Greenland wanted to go to the automotive park for a chilled post-meeting cigarette.
