--- andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Clearly they did
> > a
> > great deal of trading back and forth.
>
> Not so clearly, according to Diamond.
I thought that there was trade of metalworked goods for ivory and so forth -- but then I also have an equally hazy memory of reading that the Inuit were not the skraelings mentioned in the Greenland Saga, but moved into the area later, and that the earlier inhabitants already had metalworking? (My knowledge of this dates from about 8 years ago when I was studying Icelandic.)
Wikipedia says that the Inuit did not arrive at Greenland until around 1200, about 200-250 years after the Greenland Saga. So actually Norse in Greenland PREDATE the Inuit, if this is correct. http://us.f302.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?box=Inbox&Mid=619_12405714_13042456_3004_1036_0_163042_1982_2974514788&inc=&Search=&YY=17302&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b)
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