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Originally Posted by Cybermat47
520th anniversary of a guy arriving in a place that a Greenlander found hundreds of years before and said guy going around chopping of Native's hands when they said "I don't want to be christian"
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_c...f_the_Americas
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It is unclear why the short-term settlements did not become permanent, though it was in part because of hostile relations with the indigenous peoples, referred to as Skrælings by the Norse.
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Vikings hostile to outsiders? Never.