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'''Vinland''' was the [[Norse]] name for a rich and verdant land beyond [[Greenland]].  Until the mid-[[20th Century]] it was generally dismissed as a fantasy.  However, in 1960, the remains of a small Norse settlement was discovered in L'Anse Aux Meadows, [[Newfoundland]].  Archaeological evidence showed that the [[viking|Norsemen]] were driven out by a series of attacks by the local [[Native American|Native Americans]], likely the ancestors of the [[Beothuk]] first nation.

Leif Eriksson's [[saga]] names these people the [[Skraeling]], and the [[SCA]] this name was appropriated by the [[Barony of Skraeling Althing]] in the [[Kingdom of Ealdormere]].