Skraeling

English Alternative forms en skraeling Scraeling scraeling Skræling Etymology After en non skrælingi (of disputed etymology), the Norse name for the native inhabitants of Greenland and continental North America (Eastern Canada). Pronunciation en /ˈskɹeɪlɪŋ/ en eɪlɪŋ 2 Noun en historical ethnology A member of a race of native people encountered by early Norse settlers to Greenland, often equated with Inuit or American Indians. en 1960 Corrado Gini The Location of Vinland The Insitute of Economics Bergen 39 http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2010091306017?page=82 National Library of Norway 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. 1974, H. F. McGee, Native Peoples of Atlantic Canada, McGill–Queen's University Press 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. 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. Translations member of a race Danish: da skrælling c Swedish: sv skräling c See also en Vinland en Qallunaaq, kl qallunaaq, iu ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅ an Inuit name for European people; in Greenland this word is used to refer to Danes Proper noun en linguistics A little-known language once spoken by the now extinct Beothuk Indians of Newfoundland (also called Beothuk or Red Indian). Further reading Skræling 1 en Extinct languages Native Americans History of Canada