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To: SunkenCiv
It's interesting to speculate about any contact - cooperative, assimilative, or violent - between Vikings and the indigenous Siberian-Americans.

Unless hugely outnumbered, I think the military edge was clearly with the Vikings.

10 posted on 04/01/2016 9:48:44 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen
I doubt there was much of an edge for the Vikings -- bow and arrows, and spears, differed little from 'skraelings' to Vikings. The Vikings had metal weapons and perhaps armor, but I suspect that to economize, the amount of armor among colonizers was much lower than it was among the population back home. Also, they were likely greatly inferior in numbers, give or take nutjobs like the daughter of Eric the Red, who killed half the women on one expedition, doing it while they slept.

19 posted on 04/01/2016 10:14:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: zeestephen

Remember that most Indian tribes were pushed here when the Steppe people of Central Asia expanded. Think of the Mongol hordes or the Scithians.

They could fight among themselves and often did. Not sure when the Iroquois Nation was founded but one of the reason was that the wars devastated the population.

The Viking may have had an advantage in war but a great Indian general could have defeated them, if the Indians had united.


31 posted on 04/01/2016 11:21:12 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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