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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.
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]
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.
Minecraft is a media franchise developed from and centered around the video game of the same name.Developed by Mojang Studios (formerly known as Mojang AB) and Xbox Game Studios, which are owned by Microsoft Corporation, the franchise consists of six video games, along with various books, merchandise, events, and an upcoming theatrical film.
Build the Earth was created by YouTuber PippenFTS in March 2020 as a collaborative effort to recreate Earth in the video game Minecraft. [1] During the COVID-19 lockdowns , the server aimed to provide players with the opportunity to virtually experience and construct the world.
[13] Today, most Greenlanders are bilingual speakers of Kalaallisut and Danish and most trace their lineage to the first Inuit that came to Greenland. The vast majority of ethnic Greenlanders reside in Greenland or elsewhere in the Danish Realm, primarily Denmark proper (approximately 20,000 Greenlanders reside in Denmark proper).
As 84% of Greenland's landmass is covered by the Greenland ice sheet, Kalaallit live in three regions: Polar, Eastern, and Western. In the 1850s some Canadian Inuit migrated to Greenland and joined the Polar Inuit communities. [9] The Eastern Inuit, or Tunumiit, live in the area with the mildest climate, a territory called Ammassalik.
Muktuk [1] (transliterated in various ways, see below) is a traditional food of Inuit and other circumpolar peoples, consisting of whale skin and blubber. A part of Inuit cuisine, it is most often made from the bowhead whale, although the beluga and the narwhal are also used. It is usually consumed raw, but can also be eaten frozen, cooked, [2 ...