Skraeling

Etymology
After (of disputed etymology), the Norse name for the native inhabitants of Greenland and continental North America (Eastern Canada).

Noun

 * 1)  A member of a race of native people encountered by early Norse settlers to Greenland, often equated with Inuit or American Indians.
 * 2) * 1974, H. F. McGee, Native Peoples of Atlantic Canada,, page 2,
 * This time all the staves were being swung anti-sunwise, and the Skraelings were all yelling aloud, so they took red shields and held them out against them.
 * 1) * 2005, Jonathan Clements, A Brief History of the Vikings, Constable & Robinson (Robinson), unnumbered page,
 * The Skraelings were soon back in greater numbers, and openly hostile. The Vikings killed many of them in the ensuing battle, and witnessed a Skraeling chief hurling a captured Viking axe into the lake – purportedly in fear of its magical properties.
 * 1) * 2014 [1911, William Heinemann], Arthur G. Chater (translator),, In Northern Mists, [1911, Nansen, Nord i Tåkeheimen], , page 80,
 * A valuable piece of evidence of the Norsemen having early had intercourse with the Skrælings in Greenland is a little carved walrus, of walrus-ivory, which was found during excavations on the site of a house in Bergen, and which appears to be of Eskimo workmanship.

Translations

 * Danish: skrælling
 * Swedish:

Proper noun

 * 1)  A little-known language once spoken by the now extinct Beothuk Indians of Newfoundland (also called Beothuk or Red Indian).