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    Skræling (Old Norse and Icelandic: skrælingi, plural skrælingjar) is the name the Norse Greenlanders used for the peoples they encountered in North America...
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  • World as skræling. According to the ancient sagas, the Norse considered the natives hostile because they were repeatedly attacked by them. Skraeling Island...
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    Kalaallisut, known in English as Greenlandic. Probably adapted from the name Skræling, Kalaallit historically referred specifically to Western Greenlanders....
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    province of Newfoundland. Indigenous people like the Beothuk (known as the Skræling in Greenlandic Norse), and Innu were the first inhabitants of Newfoundland...
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    as Markland in Greenlandic Norse, and its inhabitants were known as the Skræling. Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland, Douglas & McIntyre...
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    as they pass Markland, they encounter five Skraelings (three adults and two children). The adult Skraelings disappear into the earth, while the children...
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    Icelandic merchant Thorfinn Karlsefni. The Saga describes hostilities with Skrælings, the Norse term for the native peoples they met in the lands visited south...
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    temperatures during the Little Ice Age; and armed conflicts with the Skrælings (Norse word for Inuit, meaning "wretches"). Recent archeological studies...
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    The Skrælings return in a larger group and the Norse trade red cloth for animal pelts (refusing to also trade swords and spears) until the Skrælings take...
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    western settlement, one of the two Norse settlements, was taken over by the Skræling. After the disappearance of the Norse colonies in Greenland, the Inuit...
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    Helluland (Baffin Island) • Markland (the Labrador Peninsula) • Land of the Skræling (location undetermined) • Promontory of Vinland (the Great Northern Peninsula)...
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    71 The natives, called Skraelings by the Norsemen, return with a larger force to attack Thorvald and his men. The Skraelings fire missiles at them for...
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  • British coastline, the subjugation of Greenland, and the fending off of Skræling in the New World as the Vikings found a settlement. The Battle of Hastings...
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    as Markland in Greenlandic Norse and its inhabitants were known as the Skræling. It is widely accepted that the peninsula is named after Portuguese explorer...
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    verification] Ohthere of Hålogaland Kvenland Gardariki Miklagard Vinland Serkland Skræling Panurus biarmicus and Biarmosuchus tener, species whose scientific names...
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    with the native Dorset culture of the region, people whom the sagas term skrælings.[citation needed] Historians[who?] suggest the contact had no major cultural...
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    Hauksbók Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum Book of Icelanders Skræling Greenlandic Norse Researchers Adam of Bremen Galvano Fiamma William W....
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  • and led a second expedition to this new country. The natives, called Skraelings by the Norse, attacked Thorvald and his men. Thorvald received a fatal...
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    Hauksbók Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum Book of Icelanders Skræling Greenlandic Norse Researchers Adam of Bremen Galvano Fiamma William W....
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    Hauksbók Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum Book of Icelanders Skræling Greenlandic Norse Researchers Adam of Bremen Galvano Fiamma William W....
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  • arrives in North America, intending to subjugate or slaughter the native "Skræling" population. The party is itself wiped out by another native tribe, the...
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    Hauksbók Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum Book of Icelanders Skræling Greenlandic Norse Researchers Adam of Bremen Galvano Fiamma William W....
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  • the Thule people and Greenlandic Norse people. Qilakitsoq Saqqaq culture Skræling "Thule". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. "Thule". Oxford...
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  • Greenland with his brother Thorleif Kimbi and perished in battle against the skrælings, the Indigenous peoples of the Americas), during Karlsefni's trip to Vinland...
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  • of Vinland (1003) Thorvald Eiriksson has first Viking contact with the Skrælings. Viking victory but withdrawal, with Eiriksson losing his life. 1004 Battle...
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    Hauksbók Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum Book of Icelanders Skræling Greenlandic Norse Researchers Adam of Bremen Galvano Fiamma William W....
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    they later settled but ran into problems with the natives they called Skrælings, as depicted in the Greenland saga.[citation needed] The two accounts...
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    Patterson Philpots Pim Pioneer Prince Patrick Princess Royal Seymour Skraeling Spit Stupart Table Thor Truro Vanier Sverdrup Islands Amund Ringnes Axel...
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    Hauksbók Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum Book of Icelanders Skræling Greenlandic Norse Researchers Adam of Bremen Galvano Fiamma William W....
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    people Norse Colonization Eastern Settlement Western Settlement Language Skræling Hans Egede Treaty of Kiel Erik the Red's Land Fridtjof Nansen Land World...
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