Quote Originally Posted by rvg View Post

I will emphasize this part:
"Inuit-Norse relations seem to have been fairly friendly at times, hostile at others. Few Inuit objects have been unearthed at the farms. Various Norse items, including bits of chain mail and a hinged bronze bar from a folding scale, have been found at Inuit camps in Greenland, mainland Canada, and on Baffin, Ellesmere, and Devon Islands. These are suggestive of commerce between the two peoples, but they may also have been seized by Inuit during raids on hunting parties in the Nordseta or plundered from farms."

From the Sagas we know that Norse would never trade away their weapons or armor. They were raided.
They might have also being left behind an picked up by the Inuit after the Norse left or died out or whatever happened.