skraeling

plural skraelings

1. alternativeAlternative form of Skraeling.

   Bishop Eirik Upse had gone to Vineland in 1121, perhaps to a colony of Christian settlers from Greenland or to convert skraelings in America (cf. allusion to the newly converted in the letter).

   1965, J. Kr. Tornöe, Columbus in the Arctic? and the Vineland Literature, Oslo: A. W. Brøggers Boktrykkeri, via National Library of Norway, page 45

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   "When they met the Native Americans—" "We called them the skraelings," Halfborn said. "Vicious fighters. I liked them." "—the natives had all sorts of stories about how strong the spirit world was in that area."

   [2015, Rick Riordan, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Sword of Summer, page 60

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1. historicalanthropologyA member of a race of native people encountered by early Norse settlers to Greenland, often equated with Inuit or American Indians.

   1974, H. F. McGee, Native Peoples of Atlantic Canada, Carleton University Press, page 2, This time all the staves were being swung anti-sunwise, and the Skraelings were all yelling aloud, so they took red shields and held them out against them.

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   Discrepancies between the Haúksbók and the 557 Mss. exist also in the narrative of the encounter of Karlsefni's men with the Skraelings, and always in the sense that the Haúksbók uses expressions magnifying the events, which seems suspicious.

   1960, Corrado Gini, The Location of Vinland, Bergen: The Insitute of Economics, via National Library of Norway, page 39

   2005, Jonathan Clements, A Brief History of the Vikings, Constable & Robinson (Robinson), unnumbered page, The Skraelings were soon back in greater numbers, and openly hostile. The Vikings killed many of them in the ensuing battle, and witnessed a Skraeling chief hurling a captured Viking axe into the lake – purportedly in fear of its magical properties.

   2014 [1911, William Heinemann], Arthur G. Chater (translator), Fridtjof Nansen, In Northern Mists, [1911, Nansen, Nord i Tåkeheimen], Cambridge University Press, page 80, A valuable piece of evidence of the Norsemen having early had intercourse with the Skrælings in Greenland is a little carved walrus, of walrus-ivory, which was found during excavations on the site of a house in Bergen, and which appears to be of Eskimo workmanship.

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1. human sciencesA little-known language once spoken by the now extinct Beothuk Indians of Newfoundland (also called Beothuk or Red Indian).