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单词 Skraeling
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Definition of Skraeling in English:

Skraeling

noun ˈskreɪlɪŋ
  • An Inuit or other indigenous inhabitant of Greenland or Vinland (on the north-eastern coast of North America) at the time of early Norse settlement.

    斯克雷林人(早期挪威殖民时期,北美东北沿海的格林兰或温兰德的伊努伊特人或其他土著居民)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Many archaeologists believe that the Skraelings mentioned in Viking sagas were actually a group referred to as the Recent Indians.
    • The sagas suggest that the Skraelings retreated, not knowing what to make of her strange behaviour.
    • Schledermann conjectures that these Skraelings may have been at least in part Dorset people.
    • Now this was the way the Skraelings traded: they bore off their wares in their stomachs.
    • The Skraeling, whose vision was best at night, were close to blind in the brilliant light of the morning.
    • It was here that Borneheld, having somehow escaped the Skraelings, intended to make his stand.
    • Some thirty years later, in 1379, the sagas tell of a Skraeling attack on the Eastern Settlement of Greenland.
    • They began to fashion their dwellings after those of the Skraelings and not plunder the earth.
    • The Skraelings were terrified at the sight and fled back to their boats and hastened away.
    • There was an incident where trading Skraelings were driven off because of a bellowing bull.

Origin

From Old Norse Skræling(j)ar (plural).

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