What did the word Viking originally mean? In this excerpt, Lillian explores the Old Norse roots of the term and explains why it may have described a seasonal raider rather than an entire people.
Lillian examines how a word associated with people on the move in a bay came to describe seasonal raiding parties. Because raiding was not a permanent identity, she argues that applying the term Viking to an entire society can be misleading and unfair.
The clip also introduces the names used by contemporary societies, including geographical labels such as Northmen and Danes, along with religious descriptions like pagans and heathens.
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