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Hi Catherine!
I also read somewhere (though I can't remember the actual source to cite)
that the word "viking" was a norse verb that meant, roughly, to go
adventuring/voyaging for profit and that it came to be used as a noun by the
people of
northern Europe and the British Isles to describe the Norsemen who came to
their shores. The same source (I'm looking...I'm looking) said that while the
Norsemen were not totally against taking what they wanted, that, like any
sensible group of entrepeneurs far from home, they preferred trading to
raiding.
It's less expensive in hard to replace manpower and less damaging to the
desired
property.
Ask your resident Viking what he's heard in this regard. I never heard
of it coming from a place name but a lot of terms do, so that sounds pretty
reasonable.
Kay
and Braveheart and Bogie, who both think it means separating Saddlebreds from
their hay
by forceful teamwork.
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