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To: GSlob

"Skralings" rather than Screllings. Translates to "wretches".


10 posted on 01/08/2006 3:05:10 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

I once saw it spelled "skraelings"; the writer said this term described the Indians' war whoops and screams when they were attacking the Vinland settlement.


19 posted on 01/08/2006 3:31:58 PM PST by elcid1970
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