Vikings ╠03╣

Viking is one of the Norse (Scandinavian) explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe from the late eighth to the early eleventh century.

These Norsemen used their famed longships to travel as far east as Constantinople and the Volga River in Russia, and as far west as Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland.

This period of Viking expansion is known as the Viking Age, and forms a major part of the medieval history of Scandinavia, the British Isles and Europe in general.

A romanticized picture of Vikings as Germanic noble savages emerged in the 17th century, and especially during the Victorian era Viking revival.

In Britain it took the form of Septentrionalism, in Germany that of "Wagnerian" pathos or even Germanic mysticism, and in the Scandinavian countries that of Romantic nationalism or Scandinavism.

In contemporary popular culture these clichéd depictions are often ironised with the effect of presenting Vikings as cartoonish characters.

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[Hulkenharald]

The vikings did not speak Norwegian. They spoke a language closely related to what they are speaking in Iceland to day.

[Farfeb]

do vikings speak norwegian?

[Anquetil79]

Hello from Normandy. I am proud of my Scandinavian heritage!