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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...
- World as skræling. According to the ancient sagas, the Norse considered the natives hostile because they were repeatedly attacked by them. Skraeling Island...
- Kalaallisut, known in English as Greenlandic. Probably adapted from the name Skræling, Kalaallit historically referred specifically to Western Greenlanders....
- province of Newfoundland. Indigenous people like the Beothuk (known as the Skræling in Greenlandic Norse), and Innu were the first inhabitants of Newfoundland...
- found in Greenland. L'Anse aux Meadows Norse colonization of the Americas Skraeling Island National Museum of Natural History, Arctic Studies Center. Vikings:...
- as Markland in Greenlandic Norse, and its inhabitants were known as the Skræling. Nit****inan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland, Douglas & McIntyre...
- 967 (Jenny Lind Island, NU) ^map 77 Skraeling, 78°55′N 075°40′W / 78.917°N 75.667°W / 78.917; -75.667 (Skraeling Island, NU) ^map 78 Trodely, 52°14′N...
- temperatures during the Little Ice Age; and armed conflicts with the Skrælings (Norse word for Inuit, meaning "wretches"). Recent archeological studies...
- Icelandic merchant Thorfinn Karlsefni. The Saga describes hostilities with Skrælings, the Norse term for the native peoples they met in the lands visited south...
- Habitat site (NU site 5) and Skraeling Island (78°54′42″N 075°37′58″W / 78.91167°N 75.63278°W / 78.91167; -75.63278 (Skraeling Island)) an important archaeological...