Vikings

Vikings were culturally similar and politically varied groups of Norsemen who engaged in seaborne raiding, trade, adventurism, and geographic expansion across northern Europe.

• "To viking" was a verb for going on an adventure ("the boy went viking")
• Vikings did not wear the horned helmet, which was a theatrical creation from a 19th century German opera production

An inscription using cipher runes, the Elder Futhark, and the Younger Futhark, on the 9th-century Rök Runestone in Sweden (Wikipedia

• Vikings spoke Old Norse and wrote in "runes," a Germanic alphabet

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[What the difference between vikings and norsemen? (Quora) **Not an academic source**] [Vikings (Wikipedia)] [[]]