Vikings

Norse people, farmers, merchants, explorers, raiders and pirates

Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.

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  • Norwegian pirates, buccaneering Danes,
    Whose red-haired offspring ev’rywhere remains.
  • With Hengist, Saxons, Danes with Sueno came,
    In search of plunder, not in search of fame.
  • Lie still! Thy mother-land herself
      Would know thee not again: no more
      The Raven from the northern shore
    Hails the bold crew to push for pelf,
      Though fire and blood and slaughter’d kings
      ’Neath the black terror of his wings.
  • Thorkill and Thorston from Jutland came
    To torture us Saxons with sword and flame.
  • Bring me my armour, Sigurd,
      I'll die as my fathers died,
    Not like a wolf in a shepherd's trap,
      But in all a warrior's pride.
    Strike on the brazen targets,
      And let our clarions ring;
    I'll meet this Death they talk of,
      As a King should meet a King.
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