In the case of Norse Greenland, the hostiles were the Inuit -- the Eskimos sharing Greenland -- with whom the Norse got off to bad relationships. And we know that the Inuit killed the Norse and, probably of greater importance, may have blocked access to the outer fjords, on which the Norse depended for seals at a critical time of the year.
在这个案例中，他们的敌国是因纽特人 以及爱斯基摩人，他们与维京人是格林兰岛上的“室友”， 但他们并不遭维京人待见。而且我们知道， 他们有时会屠戮维京人，此外，可能更重要的是， 他们挡住了维京人到出海口的路， 而每年的特定季节，维京人是需要通过这个峡湾出海捕猎海豹的。