-
contact with the
native po****tion
which would come to be
known as the
skrælings.
After attacking and
killing eight of the natives, they were attacked...
- as they p**** Markland, they
encounter five
Skraelings (three
adults and two children). The
adult Skraelings disappear into the earth,
while the children...
- 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...
-
Skraeling Island is a
Canadian island,
located within the
territory of Nunavut,
which lies off the east
coast of
Ellesmere Island at the
mouth of Alexandra...
-
temperatures during the
Little Ice Age; and
armed conflicts with the
Skrælings (Norse word for Inuit,
meaning "wretches").
Recent archaeological studies...
- 71 The natives,
called Skraelings by the Nor****,
return with a
larger force to
attack Thorvald and his men. The
Skraelings fire
missiles at them for...
-
Icelandic merchant Thorfinn Karlsefni. The Saga
describes hostilities with
Skrælings, the
Norse term for the
native peoples they met in the
lands visited south...
- they
later settled but ran into
problems with the
natives they
called Skrælings, as
depicted in the
Greenland saga.[citation needed] The two accounts...
- 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...
- dwindling, land is sighted.
Sailing up a river, they are
attacked by
Skrælings armed with
stone arrowheads. The
party realises they are
nowhere near...
