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US
/ˈvaɪkɪŋ/
]
[ UK /vˈaɪkɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /vˈaɪkɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- any of the Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries
How To Use Viking In A Sentence
- Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers. The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
- At that time the Byzantine Emperor employed Vikings in the elite Varangian Guard. The Last Viking Warrior | Heretical Ideas Magazine
- By turning your head, you seemed to take in the whole sweep of Irish history, from the Vikings to the plantation.
- The genetic trawl will not be looking for physical characteristics, such as colouring or height, but at particular genes that were thought to be common in Vikings.
- He was especially fascinated to learn more about Vikings.
- It is full of fells and pikes, dales and thwaites, all old Viking words which are preserved here but not used widely elsewhere.
- And not only the punters: TV's Angular Ex-England Fast Bowler Punditry Eminence could be seen holding court in raddled picnic pose, a tiny plastic Viking hat on his head. Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay
- The only motive to devote myself to study Nepenthes viking in habitat is curiosity. Its existence is quite interesting as well as its amazing pitcher shape.
- No 3 on the list is the Viking burial boat discovered sticking out of a sand dune on the island of Sanday in 1991.
- It had also a supporting role within several great ethno-historical myths: the Táin, the Welsh epics, the lives of saints, the Viking sagas.