Do you think Vikings & Pirates had a mutual understanding of one another? I mean they both worked off the same principles.....I wonder if they worked together on things!?
2007-01-27 18:59:35 · 6 answers · asked by Samantha T 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Eh....about 600 years apart and the vikings raided the coasts and fought on land. Vikings bathed more often.
2007-01-27 19:08:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
From what I know, Pirates did not come along until way after the Vikings. Pirates became realivent around the age of discovery, with columbus and various other explorers, while the vikings were realivent during the middle ages, a few hundred years before Pirates.
Also Pirates were concerned with attacking other ships and boats mostly while vikings sailed inland and attacked villages and towns directly.
Could be wrong on the details a bit, I am no expert. :)
2007-01-27 19:10:47 · answer #2 · answered by brian_wcu 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sweetie,
The raiders we refer to as "vikings" and the bucaneers we refer to as "pirates" existed 600-800 years apart. No "mutual understanding" is possible under those circumstances.
As has been noted, most of the Norse (only a relatively small percentage of them turned "viking". "Viking" comes from an Old Norse word meaning "detour"; it implies it is not something one does all the time) were farmers, fishermen, craftsmen and merchants. However, a gloss on the word "viking" *could be* "pirate" -- if you really want to stretch the term.
2007-01-28 11:01:42 · answer #3 · answered by Elise K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really don't think so. Most pirates were in the southern part of europe and in the caribbean, while Vikings stuck to the north. I think the pirate's parrot would have been a little cold up in Norway and Denmark!
By the way, Vikings were really mean and nasty. They not only raped women, but they raped monks in English monasteries. Pirates usually only plundered ships, not entire villages like the Vikings did.
2007-01-27 19:07:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Vikings n Pirates are not the same.A lot of ppl might think Vikings r bad cause they're raiders but they had to 2 do it cause their lands aren't bountiful n are 2 cold for farming.So in order to survive,they had to do it.Anyway the horrible things they have done are most probably the work of some sick Vikings.
2007-01-27 23:07:17 · answer #5 · answered by Lost 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pirates and Vikings were not so similar as people would have you believe.
The majority of Pirates were Pirates
(a few that were called pirates were actually privateers)
anway The majority of the Viking people were peacefull Farmers.
2007-01-27 20:54:53 · answer #6 · answered by Syberian 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋