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  2. Skræling - Wikipedia

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    Skræling (Old Norse and Icelandic: skrælingi, plural skrælingjar) is the name the Norse Greenlanders used for the peoples they encountered in North America (Canada and Greenland). [1] In surviving sources, it is first applied to the Thule people , the proto- Inuit group with whom the Norse coexisted in Greenland after about the 13th century.

  3. Greenlandic Inuit - Wikipedia

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    Greenland Inuit diet consists of a combination of local or traditional dishes and imported foods, with the majority of Inuit, aged 18 to 25 and 60 and older, preferring customary, local foods like whale skin and dried cod over imported foods like sausage or chicken. [21]

  4. Greenlanders - Wikipedia

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    Blok P, once Greenland's largest building and home to about 1% of its population, was demolished on October 19, 2012. Greenland has an estimated population of 55,840. [ 2 ] As of 2012, the total life expectancy was 71.25 years, with males having a life expectancy of 68.6 years and females with 74.04 years.

  5. Greenfield (Minecraft) - Wikipedia

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    Greenfield is a fictional city created in the sandbox video game Minecraft. As of May 2022, the city is one-fourth complete and has a size of 20 million blocks. [2] The city was started by Minecraft user THEJESTR in August 2011. [3] [4] As of April 2022, there are approximately 1.3 million downloads of the city map. [5]

  6. List of Greenlanders - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of notable people from Greenland: Naja Abelsen (born 1964), artist, book illustrator Arnarsaq (c. 1716 – fl. 1778), translator, interpreter and missionary

  7. Norse settlements in Greenland - Wikipedia

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    The sources on the settlement of Greenland are sparse. The main sources are the Íslendingabók by the scholar Ari Thorgilsson, the Landnámabók (the land seizure book) by an unknown author, but probably with Ari's involvement, [2] the anonymous Grænlendinga saga (Saga of the Greenlanders) and the also anonymous Saga of Erik the Red.

  8. Greenlandic people in Denmark - Wikipedia

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    While destitute Greenlanders only account for 10% of Greenlandic people living in Denmark, Greenlandic people do face higher rates of substance abuse, homelessness and unemployment. [5] [11] According to the International Work Group of Indigenous Affairs, rates of homelessness are 50% higher among Greenlandic people in Denmark than ethnic Danes ...

  9. Greenland - Wikipedia

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    Greenland has been inhabited at intervals over at least the last 4,500 years by circumpolar peoples whose forebears migrated there from what is now Canada. [18] [19] Norsemen settled the uninhabited southern part of Greenland beginning in the 10th century (having previously settled Iceland), and the 13th century saw the arrival of Inuit.