Noun
- plural form of Viking
Vikings
This is a Vikings ship.
Vikings are the warriors of the Scandinavian people from the 8th to 10th centuries who took over coastal parts of Europe.
Examples of Vikings are Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson.
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Sentence Examples
- Thereupon Russian colonization and political influence retreated northwards, and from that time the continuous stream of Russian history is to be sought in the land where the Vikings first settled and in the adjoining basin of the upper Volga.
- As in England, the vikings had o~d.
- In 801 we find Norwegians on the upper Shannon; in 820 the whole of Ireland was harried; and five years later we hear of Vikings in Co.
- There is certainly a historical connexion between the ships which the tribes on the Baltic possessed in the days of Tacitus and the viking ships (Keary, The Vikings in Western Europe, pp. 108-9): a fact which would lead us to believe that the art of shipbuilding had been better preserved there than elsewhere in northern Europe.
- Our hearts beat fast, and our hands trembled with excitement, not fear, for we had the hearts of vikings, and we knew that our skipper was master of the situation.
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