Britain Quote by Larry Trask

“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

“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

There is something so quiet and so industrious, something so Viking about the Scots.

— Joanna Lumley

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

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

“The folk of a Celtic type, whether pre-Celtic, Celtic, or Norse, have all spoken a Celtic language and exhibit the same old Celtic characteristics—vanity,…

— J.A. Macculloch

The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.

— George Blagden

“Is It True? English is a really a form of Plattdeutsch or Lowland German, the way it was spoken during the 5th century. It…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

“85 percent of the 30,000 Anglo-Saxon words died out under the influence of the Danes and Normans. That means that only about 4,500 Old…

— Bill Bryson

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

— Kristofer Hivju

English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings…

— David Crystal

After all, in both languages we were dealing in large measure not with English and French, but with Scots and Irish, Bretons and Normans…

— John Ralston Saul