* * * Iceland is not covered in ice, so why is it called Iceland? * * *

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Iceland has famous sagas, ancient stories, often involve real people and events, that teach us many things, including why Iceland is called Iceland. One of these tells of a man called Flóki who came to Iceland. Really he came to a country called Garðarshólmur (Garðar’s Isle), as that is what Iceland was called at the time. Previously, it was also called Snæland (Snowland). Flóki wasn’t the first to find Iceland but it hadn’t been fully settled as it later was. Sadly, on his journey, his daughter drowned, and when he finally arrived there was a long cold winter, colder than normal, that meant all his livestock starved to death.

Understandably, Flóki became depressed, and it didn’t get much better after he climbed a mountain, to see if there was anything good out there. The story says that all he could see was a fjord full of icebergs (that had probably washed over from Greenland). Upon his return to Norway, he referred to Garðarshólmur as Iceland. Because to him all that was there was lots of ice!

Despite him telling everyone how icy it was another crew member told everyone it was so rich that even the grass dripped with butter. People became very interested, and so the name Iceland stuck. Soon people came to settle there in numbers and refer to themselves as Íslendingur (a man from Iceland in the court of Norway.)

So Iceland is called Iceland because of a depressed man down on his luck. Had one of the other names for it stuck we could be living in Snowland right now! If it was up to you what would you have called Iceland? Would you name it after yourself, or the landscape, or what you hoped it would be?

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00:00 Akranesviti
00:18 Eyjafjallajökull
00:36 Fjallabak Nyrðri
00:48 Kerlingarfjöll
01:12 Hekluhraun
01:24 Jökuldalakvísl
01:36 Botnsá
01:55 Akranesviti
02:07 Þingvallavatn
02:19 Sauðafell
02:31 Frostastaðavatn
02:38 Eskihlíðarhnausar
02:56 Systrafoss
03:08 Beitarhúsaháls
03:21 Akraneshöfn
03:33 Elliðaárdalur
03:39 Stjórnarfoss
03:51 Norður-Garður / Loftsalahellir
04:00 Tungnaá
04:14 Above Iceland

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