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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

Maybe "we", down below the Canadian border got the wimpy ones <g>  They 
lived quite peacefully in several places.

Lynda
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> Convert, no.  But kill?   The Vikings were famous for their racially 
> bigoted
> attitude toward non-Europeans.  It led to the extinction of the Greenland
> colony where the Vikings refused to entertain hunting for seals and whales 
> that
> would have saved them because they would have to do it like those filthy
> 'skraelings' (the term the Norse used to describe aboriginal people 
> meaning 'wretch').
>
> In the "Greenlander's Saga" the Norse describe encounters with the
> "skraelings" as "we met a group of them and killed them all.  And oh, we 
> had codfish for
> lunch" as if it were nothing remarkable at all.  Apparently the Skraelings
> felt otherwise and drove the colony back into the sea and back to Iceland.
>
> James
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