"Bloody First Contact — When Vikings Clashed with Natives" Topic

…in the New World.

"MANY POINT TO the Jamestown Massacre of 1622 as the first clash between European settlers and native North Americans.

A harbinger of centuries of bloodshed yet to come, the incident saw a body of unarmed Powhatan warriors infiltrate the wooden palisade of England's struggling Virginia colony only to launch a pre-meditated surprise attack on the settlers using what tools and weapons the raiders could lay their hands on. Nearly 350 colonists were killed in the ensuing battle.

And while the attack ushered in 300 years of almost ceaseless violence between the white settlers and natives, it wasn't the first occasion in which Europeans met North American aboriginals on the battlefield. More than five centuries prior to Columbus' voyage of discovery, a party of Vikings under the leadership of Thorvald Eiriksson established small a colony in modern day Newfoundland…"

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Armand

I've run a Vikings vs "Skraelings" convention game based on the Heavener Oklahoma runestone, supposedly carved by a longship crew that made it up the Mississippi & westward to that area in eastern OK.

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Armand

You mean first recorded conflict. Vikings vs Skraelings in Greenland and Vinland sound more apt as the first conflicts.