Fyrir nokkrum vikum var grein \u00ed Columbus Dispatch um h\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0arh\u00f6ld \u00fear sem um \u00feessar mundir eru 500 \u00e1r s\u00ed\u00f0an a\u00f0 nafni\u00f0 America var nota\u00f0 \u00ed fyrsta sinn um heims\u00e1lfuna sem \u00e9g dvel \u00ed. \u00c9g s\u00e1 mig tilneyddan til a\u00f0 svara greininni, og svari\u00f0 birtist \u00ed Dispatch \u00ed dag.<\/p>\n
As a citizen of Iceland I would like to point out to that if we wish to use a European name to describe your continent, the name should by Wineland, the name the Icelandic discoverer Leifr Eiriksson gave the continent when he came over 10 centuries ago.
\nThe name implies both possibilities and bright future, hinting towards scriptural texts about the good land of wine and honey. Your tendency to name things after dead our dying males completely lacks this futuristic aspect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fyrir nokkrum vikum var grein \u00ed Columbus Dispatch um h\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0arh\u00f6ld \u00fear sem um \u00feessar mundir eru 500 \u00e1r s\u00ed\u00f0an a\u00f0 nafni\u00f0 America var nota\u00f0 \u00ed fyrsta sinn um heims\u00e1lfuna sem \u00e9g dvel \u00ed. \u00c9g s\u00e1 mig tilneyddan til a\u00f0 svara greininni, og svari\u00f0 birtist \u00ed Dispatch \u00ed dag. As a citizen of Iceland I would … Continue reading V\u00ednland<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}