Vikings

I was reading about a Viking hoard discovered in York in England this morning, and learned something quite interesting. Continue reading

A Green and Icy Land

It’s a pretty common cliché by now that Greenland is actually very icy, and Iceland is… well, not green all the time, but certainly is some of the time in some areas, and definitely isn’t always icy!

So why the apparently contradictory names then? Continue reading