Why is Greenland called green when it is covered in ice

Was it green a few years ago

The real story behind the name is given in Erik the Red's Saga, based on oral tradition and written down in the early thirteenth century in Iceland. After the Icelandic landnám was over, Erik the Red and his father Thorvald were forced to leave Norway because one or both of them was involved in killings (details are not given). After Thorvald died, Erik was involved in yet more killings, for which his punishment was three years' vacation--er, I mean banishment from Iceland. (And you thought O. J. got off easy.)

He used the time to explore the rumored lands to the west. When his term of banishment expired, he returned to Icleand to invite his neighbors and friends to settle the new country with him. He purposely chose the pleasant name Grænland ("green land") to attract settlers,

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-> It was called "Green Land" to attract settlers!
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I hope this is helpful.

It was early form "Marketing" the vikings named it to difuse the migration of the place they wanted to settle, they called it Iceland, If you were in western Germany and wanted to move which would head for?

Cause a long time ago the people that were moving the diffent people around switched the names around to trick people into thinking Greenland was a very green beautiful place instead of ice covered :3

Why is Iceland called iceland if it's not covered in ice?

one tteory is that iceland and greeland were misnamed in order to discourage or prevent other people from colonzing them.

Why is Iceland called ice when it is covered in green?

because transylvania is already taken

I was a marketing ploy to get people to move there.