Myth of Greenland

A long time ago, Greenland was part of Canada, separated by the Davis Strait. The island was connected to Canada by a “land bridge” of only 10 meters wide. In the summer of 1929, a disaster happened. The Prime Minister of Canada at the time, William Mackenzie King was good friends with the King Christian X of Denmark. They have known each other for many years. One day in the summer of 1929 giant frogs fell from the sky and landed on the vast land of Canada. They began to tear away land and create large pits that formed into rivers and lakes. The people chased all the frogs to northern Canada, where they were killed. However, many frogs came back o life from death and continued to reproduce and chew away land with their sharp fangs. The year’s worth of harvest and crops were destroyed and homes were sunk or swept away in floods. Pesticide, poison, deadly gases and rifles were used but the frogs seemed indestructible. The people were now scared and hungry. The Prime Minister desperately needed to save his people and exterminate the frogs before the country became thousands of floating islands ruled over by a frog monarchy.



His good friend King Christian sent a letter offering help from the other side of the Atlantic. The two created a plan and spent two weeks preparing for it. Within the two weeks, northern Canada that once had been a beautiful land mass had been reduced to many bodies of water. But the Prime Minister was ready to strike. He said to his followers:



“Today is the day we get rid of these beasts once and for all.”



His followers gathered people from across the country and all together, they led the people into chasing the frogs onto the edge of the land by the Davis Strait. Exactly at noon, according to the plan, some of the people crossed the land bridge onto the island. The same time in Iceland, the King gave an order to his army:



“Pull!” he said to the Danish soldiers, referring to the massive ropes and pulleys system he had prepared beforehand.



The other ends of the ropes were attached to Greenland. Now, Iceland was under the rule of Denmark at the time before it became an independent nation in 1944. The soldiers started to pull. Slowly Greenland started to move and break away from Canada. The land bridge was collapsing. The frogs on the other side wanted more land to chew on, so all of them attempted jumps across the Strait. However, the Strait was getting wider and wider. The frogs all fell into the water. They did not know how to swim. Every last frog drowned. The Prime Minister and his people saw this and were very happy.



In Iceland, the King did not know when he should order the men to stop pulling the ropes, so they pulled and pulled for two straight days and two straight nights. They stopped when the Prime Minister himself arrived at Iceland on a boat to deliver the good news. Along with a celebration, the Prime Minister presented the King of Denmark a gift. He officially gave the island of Greenland to the King of Denmark in return for his help. King Christian X accepted it graciously,



Today, Greenland is separated from Canada by 2556 km of water. It is a country within the Kingdom of Denmark. It remains the world’s largest island that is not a continent and also remains the symbol of friendship and alliance between the two countries.





Notes: This event is purely fictional, with the exception of the main characters and places