The invaders, quickly converted, quit their quarrels, and the Earth-lings were even more enslaved.
What did the Earth-lings call the invaders, father?
At that the Skrælings are afraid and run away back to their boats, and go off.
The Skrælings also found a dead man, and an axe lay beside him; one of them took up the axe and struck at a tree, and so one after another, and it seemed to delight them that it bit so well.
She nevertheless followed them into the wood, but the Skrælings came after her.
The Skrælings leapt from their boats and then they made towards each other and fought; there was a hot exchange of missiles.
The Skrælings were scared and ran to their boats (keipana) and rowed south along the shore.
Two possibilities suggest themselves: either this Wineland with its Skrælings was nothing but the well-known mythical land with its mythical people, which required no further description.
Soote answered: The Lings of Seda Sheev are innumerable.
The Lings which are thus extant over the land, are not to be counted: but of such as are now more especially in repute I shall immediately state to you the twelve Jyotee Lings.
Chapter 38--Particularisation of theLings of Seda Sheev; and first of the twelve Jyotee Lings, with the history of the first, called Somentathe.
She did so, and the two Lings becoming united, have ever since been worshipped under that shape by Brahma, Vishnu, etc.
The Reesheeshwers demanded of Soote an account of the Lings of Seda Sheev, that are known upon this part of the earth, and are worthy to be worshipped, and where they are stationed.
The reference to the Skrælings in the first friendly intercourse of Thorfinn Karlsefne and his companions with the natives, and their subsequent hostile attitude, ending in the death of Thorvald Ericson, has given occasion to this digression.
At this sight the Skrælings became terrified, and ran off to their canoes.
Karlsefne also caused the women to bear out milk soup, and the Skrælings relishing the taste of it, they desired to buy it in preference to everything else, so they wound up their traffic by carrying away their bargains in their bellies.
In the beginning of the following winter the Skrælings came again in much greater numbers; they showed symptoms of hostility, setting up loud yells.
In exchange for a skin entirely gray the Skrælings took a piece of cloth of a span in breadth, and bound it round their heads.
The account given in the Saga of the approach of the Skrælings would sufficiently accord with that of a Micmac flotilla of canoes.
At this the Skrælings got terrified and rushed to their canoes, and rowed away southwards.
Our chronicle describes the Skrælings of Vinland as swarthy in hue, ferocious in aspect, with ugly hair, big eyes, and broad cheeks.
Sidenote: The Skrælings of Vinland were Indians,--very likely Algonquins.
These Skrælings were clad in skins, and their weapons were bows and arrows, slings, and stone hatchets.
One other point which must be noticed here in connection with the Skrælings is a singular manoeuvre which they are said to have practised in the course of the fight.
This may be the same idea that we meet with again in the description of the Skrælings in Eric the Red's Saga, where we are told that they were "breiðir i kinnum.
It is therefore natural that the Skrælings avoided that part of Greenland where the Norsemen lived in large numbers.
It only occurs there as applied to the Skrælings of Wineland, Markland and Greenland.
As the Skrælings of Greenland were dark, it was quite natural that they should become trolls, and not elves, which were fair.
In Norway, on the other hand, kinship with the Icelandic Norsemen in Greenland was more distant, and interest in the strange, outlandish Skrælings was correspondingly greater.
Besides, in the last authority it is expressly stated that there were Skrælings in Nordrsetur (Kroksfjardarheidr, cf.
Sidenote: Encounters with the Skrælings in Wineland] If we now proceed further in the description of the Wineland voyages in the Saga of Eric the Red, we come to the encounters with the Skrælings.
Skrælings did not venture to approach a Christian or Ruten (i.
But now they came upon the first traces of other men; far off upon the white sandy beach three specks were sighted--three skin boats of the Skrælings or Esquimaux, with three men hiding under each.
Lots of people shrieked, women curled up and quit in every direction, foundlings collapsed by platoons.
Bathsheba moved on to hide the irrepressible dimp- lings of merriment.
These go by the name of Holland Lings: but they are taken out of His Majesty's seas, and were Shetland Lings before they took them there; and for these Lings they do carry away abundance of England's best money daily.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
