Accent Quote by Katheryn Winnick

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

I had this awesome tennis teacher when I was 12 who was Icelandic. He looked like a Viking: long hair, and he was built…

— Eline Powell

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

“The word Viking comes from the Old Norse word “víkingr,” a term which meant to go raiding and it wasn't always by boat. The…

— Njord Kane

“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

Up in the north of Scotland, a lot of the villages are completely Viking names. A lot of Vikings came down and settled in…

— Gerard Butler

I read a lot of Icelandic sagas when I was young. I've always been interested in the Viking culture.

— Kristofer Hivju

The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the sounds. In…

— Ann Patchett

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

If anything, I've thought of myself as Scandinavian. Particularly, Danish. We spoke English at home.

— Prince Philip

There's just certain accents that you can and can't do. And the Scottish accent was one that came quite naturally to me, which is…

— Nell Hudson

Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over…

— Christopher Heyerdahl