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VIKING
Viking
(noun) any of the Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
viking (plural vikings)
Alternative letter-case form of Viking
Anagrams
• Kinvig
Etymology
Noun
Viking (plural Vikings)
(historical) One of the Scandinavian or other Northern European seafaring warriors that raided (and then settled) the British Isles and other parts of Europe in the 8th to the 11th centuries and, according to many historians, were the first Europeans to reach North America.
(by extension, fantasy) A stock character common in the fantasy genre, namely a barbarian, generally equipped with an axe or sword and a helmet adorned with horns.
(colloquial) A Norseman (mediaeval Scandinavian).
(colloquial, humorous, mildly, offensive) An ethnic Swede, Norwegian, Dane, Icelander or Faroe Islander.
(American football) A player on the Minnesota Vikings NFL team.
Proper noun
Viking
A sea area between Scotland and Norway
A town in Alberta, Canada
A city in Minnesota
Anagrams
• Kinvig
Source: Wiktionary
Vi"king, n. Etym: [Icel. vikingr, fr. vik a bay, inlet.]
Definition: One belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries. Of grim Vikings, and the rapture Of the sea fight, and the capture, And the life of slavery. Longfellow.
Note: Vikings differs in meaning from sea king, with which frequently confounded. "The sea king was a man connected with a royal race, either of the small kings of the country, or of the Haarfager family, and who, by right, received the title of king as soon he took the command of men, although only of a single ship's crew, and without having any land or kingdom . . . Vikings were merely pirates, alternately peasants and pirates, deriving the name of viking from the vicks, wicks, or inlets, on the coast in which they harbored with their long ships or rowing galleys." Laing.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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