Skraeling

Meanings

Noun

• A member of a race of native people encountered by early Norse settlers to Greenland, often equated with Inuit or American Indians.

Proper Noun

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

Origin

• After Old Norse skrælingi (of disputed etymology), the Norse name for the native inhabitants of Greenland and continental North America.