what are vikings?

Question

is this a warrior community

Answer 1

The term Viking commonly denotes the ship-borne explorers, traders, and warriors of the Norsemen who originated in Scandinavia and raided the coasts of the British Isles, France and other parts of Europe from the late 8th century to the 11th century. This period of European history (generally dated to 793–1066) is often referred to as the Viking Age. It may also be used to denote the entire populations of Viking Age Scandinavia and their settlements elsewhere.

Answer 2

The original meaning of the word Viking was bandit or pirate. The word has later taken the meaning of everyone living in the community during that era. Most of them were peaceful people and not warriors.

Answer 3

actually the word viking is not a who but a what. The Norsemen of northern Europe would go raiding villages to increase their food supplies for the harsh winter months, they would call this 'going a-viking'.

Answer 4

Vikings are the people who lived in the countries like Holland, Iceland belonging to Scandinavia, they had a lust for trade hence they started voyaging to different parts of russia,america, europe and also england.

Answer 5

Nordic Warriors in Scandinavia

Answer 6

It's a reference to norse raiders that had a tendancy to pillage by boat. There's a terrific bit on vikings on the history channel on the "barbarians" show. Leif Erickson is one of the better-known ones.

Answer 7

The term Viking commonly denotes the ship-borne explorers, traders, and warriors of the Norsemen who originated in Scandinavia and raided the coasts of the British Isles, France and other parts of Europe from the late 8th century to the 11th century. This period of European history (generally dated to 793–1066) is often referred to as the Viking Age. It may also be used to denote the entire populations of Viking Age Scandinavia and their settlements elsewhere.

Famed for their navigation ability and long ships, Vikings in a few hundred years colonized the coasts and rivers of Europe, the islands of Shetland, Orkney, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland circa 1000,[1] while still reaching as far south as North Africa, east into Russia and to Constantinople for raiding and trading. Vikings are also widely known to have been early explorers of North America, with putative expeditions to present-day Canada taking place as early as the 10th century. Viking voyages grew less frequent with the introduction of Christianity to Scandinavia in the late 10th and 11th century. The Viking Age is often considered to have ended with the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066.

The word viking was introduced to the English language with romantic connotations in the 18th century. However, etymologists assign the earliest use of the word to Anglo-Frankish writers, who referred to "víkingr" as one who set about to raid and pillage.[2] In the current Scandinavian languages the term viking is applied to the people who went away on viking expeditions, be it for raiding or trading. See also: The saga of Egil Skallagrimsson. In English and many other languages it has become common to use it to refer to the Viking Age Scandinavians in general.[3] The pre-Christian Scandinavian population is also referred to as Norse.

Answer 8

A football team in Minnesota.

Answer 9

7 foot redhead red necks that wore skirts and horns to scare off gays

Answer 10

it's a pirates