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But early on morning as they looked around they caught sight of nine skin-boats; the men in them were waving sticks which made a noise like flails...
Eirik's Saga, trans. Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Palsson, London, 1965, p.98.
PLACE: Vinland (North America)
TIME: ca. 1010
CIRCUMSTANCE: Encounter of the Norsman Thofinn Karlsefni with North American Indians during his exploration of Vinland. Red Indians are known to have used rattle-sticks during various rituals. Some of the tribes such as the Micmacs used skin-boats made of buffalo hide.
Then it so happened that the bull belonging to Karlsefni and his men came running out of the woods, bellowing furiously. The Skraelings were terrified and ran to their skin-boats and rowed away south round the headland.
Eirik's Saga, trans. Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Palsson, London, 1965, p.99.
PLACE: Vinland (North America)
TIME: ca. 1010
CIRCUMSTANCE: Skraelings (North American Indians) frightened by the sound of the Norsmen's bull, during Karlsefni's expedition to Vinland.
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