Helluland
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Helluland is one of the three lands, the others being Vinland and Markland, seen by Bjarni Herjólfsson, encountered by Leif Erikson and further explored by Thorfinn Karlsefni Thórdarson around AD 1000
Coast of the Remote Peninsula in Sam Ford Fjord, northeast Baffin Island.
Christian Krohg Leiv Eirikson discovering America Google Art Project
Skræling
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Skræling is the name the Norse Greenlanders used for the peoples they encountered in North America. In surviving sources, it is first applied to the Thule people, the proto-Inuit group with whom the N
Helluland
…From the testimony of the sagas, the Norse explorers probably made contact with the native Dorset culture of the region, people whom the sagas term skrælings. Historians suggest the contact had no major cultural ramifications for either side. Patricia Sutherland, of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, found…
Statue of Thorfinn Karlsefni by Einar Jónsson in Philadelphia