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Updated: June 14, 2025
Then the leader took the axe and threw it into the water, after which the Skraelings retreated, and were not seen again. The winter was a mild one, and while it lasted, the Norsemen worked busily at felling wood and house-building. They had also many amusements, in most of which Harald excelled. They used to swim in all weathers.
Then came the sound of a great crash and the woman vanished. A battle followed in which many Skraelings were slain. It all reads like a dream. In the end Karlsefni sailed back to Ericsfirth with a great treasure of furs. A great and prosperous family in Iceland was descended from him at the time when the stories were written down.
But it is said that Freydis who frightened the Skraelings committed many murders in Vineland among her own people. The Icelanders never returned to Vineland the Good, though a bishop named Eric is said to have started for the country in 1121.
This happened yet again, but at the second visit one of the Skraelings was accidentally killed or injured.
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