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Scrattels, Skretles, often figure in the Norse tales as hopping dwarfs, half magical . The Norse discoverers of America recognized the Skraellings in the Esquimaux, and fled from them in panic terror; till that furious virago Freydisa, Thorvard's wife, and Eirek the Red's daughter, caught up a dead man's sword, and put to flight, single-handed, the legion of little imps.
Moreover, if they are the same people as the Skraellings of the Norse traditions they must have been of a fiercer disposition a thousand years ago. The skin colour, as a rule, was darker and browner than the greyish- or pinkish-yellow of the Eskimo. Then they crossed the Rocky Mountains and peopled the centre and east of what is now the United States.
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