Skraelings

For ten years they came riding southward in their rude-planked ships of the dragon prow, those Norse adventurers; and Thorwald, Leif's brother, is first of the pathfinders in America to lose his life in battle with the "Skraelings" or Indians.

Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom 1903

Thorwald fought with the "Skraelings," and Biarni's dragon ship made the trip down the coast of Vineland about the dawn of the Christian era.

Shelters, Shacks and Shanties Daniel Carter Beard 1895

Ford places the issue in historical perspective:If ironhadthreatened to offer the Vikings an insuperable advantage, would the Skraelings indigenous peoples of Greenland and Newfoundland -- RW have been justified in developing a . . . resentment that demanded either thesharingof iron weaponry or Viking disarmament in the name of achieving a global "iron zero"?

Russ Wellen: Is "It's Not Fair" a Childish Response to Being Denied Nuclear Weapons? Russ Wellen 2011

Another thing the sagas indicate to me is the natives (Skraelings) were numerically stronger than the Viking colonists, which dampened the latter's desire to settle, or return very often for rather meager gains.

Archive 2005-08-28 Michael Evans 2005

Another thing the sagas indicate to me is the natives (Skraelings) were numerically stronger than the Viking colonists, which dampened the latter's desire to settle, or return very often for rather meager gains.

View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2005

Eventually the absorbtion of their realms into a centralised kingdom, massive crop failure from the cold snap called the Little Ice Age, battles with the recalcitrant indigenous savages they met and called "Red-Skraelings" and a lack of immediate ROI, put an end to a Scandinavian colonisation of North America.

Heroic Norse Discoverers 2003

Eventually the absorbtion of their realms into a centralised kingdom, massive crop failure from the cold snap called the Little Ice Age, battles with the recalcitrant indigenous savages they met and called "Red-Skraelings" and a lack of immediate ROI, put an end to a Scandinavian colonisation of North America.

The Sudden Curve: 2003

Eventually the absorbtion of their realms into a centralised kingdom, massive crop failure from the cold snap called the Little Ice Age, battles with the recalcitrant indigenous savages they met and called "Red-Skraelings" and a lack of immediate ROI, put an end to a Scandinavian colonisation of North America.

Heroic Norse Discoverers 2003

The next account is that of Ivar Bardarson in his Description of Greenland; Bardarson reported on the take-over of the Western Settlement by the Skraelings, with the implication that they had killed the inhabitants.

The Fate of Greenland's Vikings 2000

One old source held that Skraelings, or Inuit, who had crossed over from Ellesmere Island in the far north around A.D. 1000, migrated down the west coast and overran the settlement.

The Fate of Greenland's Vikings 2000