Skraeling Definition

noun
A member of a race of native people encountered by early Norse settlers to Greenland, often equated with Inuit or American Indians.
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pronoun
A little-known language once spoken by the now extinct Beothuk Indians of Newfoundland (also called Beothuk or Red Indian).
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Other Word Forms of Skraeling

Noun

Singular:
skraeling
Plural:
skraelings

Origin of Skraeling

  • After Old Norse Skrælingar, the Norse name for the native inhabitants of Greenland.

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Skraeling Sentence Examples

  • When the Norsemen came to Greenland they found various remains indicating, as the old sagas say, that there had been people of a similar kind as those they met with in Vinland, in America, whom they called Skraeling (the meaning of the word is uncertain, it means possibly weak people); but the sagas do not report that they actually met the natives then.

  • Here Thorvald Ericsson was killed by a (Skraeling?) arrow, and the expedition came back to Streamfiord where they passed the next winter (1005-1006).

  • Two Skraeling children were captured here and the expedition divided, Thorfinn making Greenland and Ericsfiord in safety with his own vessel, while the other was lost in the Irish Sea, only half the crew escaping to Ireland in the ship's boat.

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