After Quote by George Blagden

In the ninth and tenth centuries the Vikings invaded Britain from Scandinavia and settled in large numbers. Their language, which we call Old Norse,…

— Larry Trask

“The main body of Vikings were given lands in the Seine basin in exchange for protecting Paris. They settled into northern France and within…

— Mark Kurlansky

“Viking is a term—thought to have its root in the old Norse vika, meaning “to go off”—for Scandinavians who left their native land to…

— Mark Kurlansky

“Here are three elements we often see in town names: If a town ends in “-by”, it was originally a farmstead or a small…

— David Crystal

There are four of us, and we were all born in different cities because my dad worked all around the place. We settled in…

— Gwilym Lee

When the Vikings moved into a place they just kind of killed everybody who was there before them.

— Jon Gnarr

I felt that a lot of Viking culture had been caricatured and misconstrued. After all, they were far more democratic than the Saxons and…

— Michael Hirst

Names are very important for humans, aren't they? How do I translate for you the name of this town as it seems to me,…

— Karen Lord

Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them,…

— Gabriel Byrne

We do have a big kind of history in literate tradition of Vikings and we have a lot of Viking blood in Scotland, I…

— Craig Ferguson

“the Welsh name for ‘England’, Lloegr, meant ‘the Lost Land’, I fell for the fancy, imagining what a huge sense of loss and forgetting…

— Norman Davies

We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial…

— Binyavanga Wainaina