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Definition of Skraeling in English: Skraelingnoun ˈskreɪlɪŋ An Inuit or other indigenous inhabitant of Greenland or Vinland (on the north-eastern coast of North America) at the time of early Norse settlement. Example sentencesExamples - Many archaeologists believe that the Skraelings mentioned in Viking sagas were actually a group referred to as the Recent Indians.
- The sagas suggest that the Skraelings retreated, not knowing what to make of her strange behaviour.
- Schledermann conjectures that these Skraelings may have been at least in part Dorset people.
- Now this was the way the Skraelings traded: they bore off their wares in their stomachs.
- The Skraeling, whose vision was best at night, were close to blind in the brilliant light of the morning.
- It was here that Borneheld, having somehow escaped the Skraelings, intended to make his stand.
- Some thirty years later, in 1379, the sagas tell of a Skraeling attack on the Eastern Settlement of Greenland.
- They began to fashion their dwellings after those of the Skraelings and not plunder the earth.
- The Skraelings were terrified at the sight and fled back to their boats and hastened away.
- There was an incident where trading Skraelings were driven off because of a bellowing bull.
Origin From Old Norse Skræling(j)ar (plural). |