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

Maybe.  The site described in the saga has been identified as the  L'Anse Aux 
meadows in Newfoundland.  A great deal has been made about other passages in 
the sagas and chronicles in which ships from 'Markland' and 'Vinland' are 
mentioned as if they were nothing out of the ordinary.

>From the Grœnlendinga Saga :

"Thorvald then said: "Here it is beautiful, and here would I like to raise my 
dwelling." Then went they to the ship, and saw upon the sands within the 
promontory three elevations, and went thither, and saw there three skin 
boats, and 
three men under each. Then divided they their people, and caught them all, 
except one, who got away with his boat. They killed the other eight, and then 
went back to the cape,and looked round them, and saw some heights inside of 
the 
firth, and supposed that these were dwellings."