How to pronounce“vikings”in English

Vikings so it's a kind of Northern masculine um

the Vikings did on Paris or the Seine, you know, and then he eventually ends up plundering

The Vikings, I—I like to call it creative destruction.

Those Vikings, those warlike notorious Vikings, are the ancestors of the modern peaceable Scandinavians.

The Vikings had invaded.

- Were the Vikings aware of the fear that they had caused?

of the Vikings is that the Viking Age is so short.

By the time the Vikings crash into it, you also have the added bonus for them of really feckless rulers.

is actually what the Vikings mostly wore in battle?

Actually came from Vikings, Normans, when they came to Ireland many years ago.

So these Vikings were very important.

Maidens and the Vikings," the powerful women in Game of Thrones, and now Marvel Comics has actually introduced a female Thor war goddess, and Wonder Woman

--as the Minnesota Vikings punter.

like the Vikings came to the Island, this guy served the High King of Ireland, he lead this battle, he defeated the Vikings, but as some of the Vikings were fleeing they found

So the age of the Vikings was intense and violent, as you write about, often dated from 793 AD to 1066 AD.

And so the fact that the Vikings hit this place of all places you could hit was the worst, the most terrifying kind of offense against medieval sensibilities.

most frightening thing about the Vikings.

the buffer zone between them and the Vikings?

7.5 million silver pennies to the Vikings to get them to go away, which is a bit like someone's mugging you, so you pay them more money so they'll go away.

interesting to see what the Vikings came up with.

- I have to ask about Vikings as explorers.

- I think that's why the Vikings remain so popular today, you know?

First for me was looking at Vikings and sails, that for Vikings to create the boats was far easier than creating the sails, the masts, the sails

So the language that came with the Vikings was R-less.

So you can go back to the Vikings.

Nobody in here remembers even the Vikings.

who saved this book from the Vikings, is sort of hoovered up in the prayers that go with the community every time this book is used and read

So I talked about the Vikings.

on NASA's radar screen the Vikings had failed to find um anything like positive

constant invasions of the uh of the Vikings bringing the Norse languages

Your writing and podcasts take us from the Vikings to the Normans to Crusades, to the collapse of the East Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire.

- And then we should also say that the Vikings, many of them pragmatic people, so a lot of them would eventually then convert to Christianity, so you get-

I think recently we were watching-- is the "The Vikings?"

And we're not going to talk about Columbus or the Vikings.

But to suppose that nothing has happened since the Vikings is to be pretty rigid, pretty doctrinaire.

There's some evidence that maybe the classic Vikings were an exception to that, that women fought equally.

But I want to get back to the Vikings.

So here's Kirk Douglas in 1958 in "The Vikings".

The reason I'm bringing it up is simply because the Vikings did live in this part of the world.

goes back as far as the Greeks and the Vikings but really came to be crystallized in this map, a 1592 Mercator map which showed very clearly

Of course, the Vikings had an idea.

And these were animals that were introduced by the Vikings in the 9th century.

In this conversation, we focus primarily on the Vikings, the seafaring Norse warriors and explorers who, over a

- In June of 793, a group of Vikings, probably originating from Norway, arrived at the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, which was a monastic community, and they

- And then the Vikings here just test the system.

So that, those are the ideals of the Vikings.

- Yeah, they basically take all the main Vikings and put them all together.

- Oh God, I love the Vikings.

kingdoms in England, and the Vikings destroyed all but one.