Just saw these great Skraeling miniatures now produced by CP Models where they retail for £3.50 a pack of three! There are several packs including bowmen and a nice command element.
Skraeling was the Viking name for the Indian tribes they encountered during their attempts at colonising North America. Eric's saga records skirmishes with the Skraelings as being the reason the colonies were abandoned, "that although the land was excellent they could never live there in safety or freedom from fear, because of the native inhabitants. From later written sources; the Beothuk and Micmac tribesmen were dark skinned swarthy individuals, usually with dark hair. They wore a variety of animal skins including seal. Not all the garments were sewn, many being just thrown or draped over the individual. Both tribesmen coloured themselves and their weapons with red ochre.
Sources do not say if this was patterns or a total covering; but it was the original descriptive source of the term – "Red Indians! Skraelings designed with open hands & supplied with separate weapons, so they can be armed as you wish.
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