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Inukpasuit, Inuit And Viking Contact In Ancient Times
Author: Ronald Brower Source: The Arctic Sounder
Title: INUKPASUIT, INUIT AND VIKING CONTACT IN ANCIENT TIMES
  There are many stories of ‘Qavlunaat,’ white-skinned strangers who were encountered in Inuit-occupied lands in times of old. Stories of contact between these foreign people and Inuit were passed down the generations and used mostly to scare children to behave “or the Qavlunaat will get them.”
This sparked my curiosity to explore both sides of the encounters from written records and Inuit oral legends to see if some of these events can be correlated. One must recall that these legends were passed down orally in the Inupiaq language.
Inuit myths and legends of contact with other people were passed from one generation to the next through story telling traditions. Many people have heard Pete Sovalik, a well-known Inupiaq story-teller tell this shortened version of a story relating to Qavlunaat and other races.
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| Skraelings 1 Vikings 0 | Feb 16th. at 10:42:33 am EST
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
Since the Vikings did raid for slaves from time to time, it is quite possible that those kidnapped were taken to be sold elsewhere, never to return. Since no one came back to tell otherwise it could have easily been assumed that those unlucky ones were eaten.
As for the Vikings, historically, they had a strong arrogance concerning those they met, considering the Inuit to be sub human, a fact that did little to endear them to those natives they met, and proved fatal for some of the Northern Colonies in Greenland and the New World when the climate changed and they froze to death.
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