Is it true that Vikings come from Scandinavia?

Answer 1

Yes.

"Viking refers to a member of the Scandinavian seafaring traders, warriors and pirates who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe from the late 8th to the 11th century. These Norsemen (literally, men from the north) used their famed longships to travel as far east as Constantinople and the Volga River in Russia, and as far west as Newfoundland. This fearful period of Viking expansion is commonly referred to as the Viking Age of Scandinavian History."

Answer 2

You're falling for Zapper's word game, my friends. The historic vikings, the pirate raiders of the 9th and 10th centuries, don't COME from anywhere since they do not exist in present time. Historically the men who went on viking enterprises came from many places in Europe besides the region we now call Scandinavia (Sweden, Denmark, Norway). They were also often natives of the Shetland and Orkney islands, Iceland, Greenland, Ireland, England, France and Russia.

Strictly speaking the term refers not to a race or ethnic identity, but to a trade or profession, and was seldom used in contemporary Europe. People who were attacked by the vikings didn't use that term. Generally they would refer to their enemies as the Northmen or Danes. Irish chroniclers sometimes called them "gentiles."

Then there are the contemporary Minnesota Vikings, a football team with no native Scandinavian members.

Answer 3

"Viking" comes from an old Norse word meaning "raider". It was the name Scandanavian, old Norse speaking people gave themselves when they were out rampaging and looting.

Being a Viking was popular for about 300 years, ending in 1066. They covered a lot of ground-North America to Kiev in Russia, and eventually settled down and intermarried the locals in Normandy, Kiev, Britain or set up their own colonies in the Faroes, Greenland and Iceland.

Egg and awkward are two old Norse we adopted into English from the Vikings!

Answer 4

Yes. Leif Erickson came from Scandinavia and he's a Viking.

Answer 5

Yes

Answer 6

all very true. they raped and pillaged their way into history.

Answer 7

No, they come from Minnesota.