NORSE MYTHOLOGY - SKRALING - SEA-MARKER A Greenlander fighting a pigmy Skraling (the name given by the Norse and Islandic to the natives of Greenland and North America) - woodcut from Olaus Magnus, Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (1555), Cap. XI. From a glory at the top, a saint looks on, but whether he is encouraging in the Greenlander or the Skraling is not at all clear. Olaus (whose family name was Stora, meaning 'great') was of the opinion that the sea-marker carving of the 'compass' on the rock to the bottom right was made circa 1494, by the pirates, Pining and Pothorst. In the
NORSE MYTHOLOGY - SKRALING - SEA-MARKER A Greenlander fighting a pigmy Skraling (the name given by the Norse and Islandic to the natives of Greenland and North America) - woodcut from Olaus Magnus, Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (1555), Cap. XI. From a glory at the top, a saint looks on, but whether he is encouraging in the Greenlander or the Skraling is not at all clear. Olaus (whose family name was Stora, meaning 'great') was of the opinion that the sea-marker carving of the 'compass' on the rock to the bottom right was made circa 1494, by the pirates, Pining and Pothorst. In the English translation of this work, the Icelanding Skr£lingar is always translated as Skralings. See, for example, pp. 59-61, lines 11, relating to the conflict with the Skralings in the Norr£na Society parallel texts of Icelandic, Danish and English, The Flatley Book and Recently Discovered Vatican Manuscripts Concerning America as Early as the Tenth Century (1906).
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