Vi"king (?), n. [Icel. vīkingr,
fr. vīk a bay, inlet.] One belonging to the pirate crews
from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth,
ninth, and tenth centuries.
Of grim Vikings, and the rapture
Of the sea fight, and the capture,
And the life of slavery.
Longfellow.
&fist; Vikings differs in meaning from sea king, with
which frequently confounded. "The sea king was a man connected with
a royal race, either of the small kings of the country, or of the Haarfager
family, and who, by right, received the title of king as soon he took the
command of men, although only of a single ship's crew, and without having
any land or kingdom . . . Vikings were merely pirates, alternately
peasants and pirates, deriving the name of viking from the
vicks, wicks, or inlets, on the coast in which they harbored
with their long ships or rowing galleys." Laing.
Vi"king (?), n. [Icel. vīkingr,
fr. vīk a bay, inlet.] One belonging to the pirate crews
from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth,
ninth, and tenth centuries.
Of grim Vikings, and the rapture
Of the sea fight, and the capture,
And the life of slavery.
Longfellow.
&fist; Vikings differs in meaning from sea king, with
which frequently confounded. "The sea king was a man connected with
a royal race, either of the small kings of the country, or of the Haarfager
family, and who, by right, received the title of king as soon he took the
command of men, although only of a single ship's crew, and without having
any land or kingdom . . . Vikings were merely pirates, alternately
peasants and pirates, deriving the name of viking from the
vicks, wicks, or inlets, on the coast in which they harbored
with their long ships or rowing galleys." Laing.
