which were written in the 13th century, use this same term for the people of the area known as Vinland whom the Norse met in the early 11th century. The word subsequently became well known, and has been used in the English language since the 18th century.

"Kalaallit", the name of the largest ethnic group of Greenlandic Inuit, is probably derived from skræling. In 1750, Paul Egede mentions