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
Statue of Thorfinn Karlsefni by Einar Jónsson in Philadelphia
Christian Krohg Leiv Eirikson discovering America Google Art Project
Beothuk
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The Beothuk were a group of Indigenous who lived on the island of Newfoundland.
Skræling
…in the years 900, 1100, 1300 and 1500. The green colour shows the Dorset Culture, blue the Thule Culture, red Norse Culture, yellow Innu and orange Beothuk Skræling (Old Norse and Icelandic: skrælingi, plural skrælingjar) is the name the Norse Greenlanders used for the peoples they encountered in North…
Demasduit, 1819
Statue of Shanawdithit in Boyd's Cove
The Beothuk tribe of Newfoundland is extinct as a cultural group. It is represented in museum, historical and archaeological records.