Where did the hoax first originate to call Iceland "Iceland" when it was green, and Greenland "Greenland" when it was clearly made of ice?

maputo95

The peremeter of Greenland is part of an archipelego and has vegetation.The greenery impressed the first Viking explorers Aug 10 03, 1:17 PM

egiltheskald

With the outlawry of Erik the Red (discoverer of Greenland iirc) started one part of that "hoax". Is it proper to call the name Iceland a hoax, when most of the original colonists came over from Norway? Aug 11 03, 3:29 AM

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