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.
Quotes
edit- Norwegian pirates, buccaneering Danes,
Whose red-haired offspring ev’rywhere remains.- Daniel Defoe, The True-born Englishman (1701)
- With Hengist, Saxons, Danes with Sueno came,
In search of plunder, not in search of fame.- Daniel Defoe, The True-born Englishman (1701)
- 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.- Francis Turner Palgrave, "A Danish Barrow (On the East Devon Coast)", st. 3, in A Lyme Garland (1874)
- Thorkill and Thorston from Jutland came
To torture us Saxons with sword and flame.- George Walter Thornbury, "A Dorsetshire Legend", st. 1, in Historical & Legendary Ballads & Songs (1876)
- 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.- George Walter Thornbury, "The Dying Viking" st. 1, in Historical & Legendary Ballads & Songs (1876)