The word viking in Old English actually means pirate. My Norse people that settled in Scotland so they were vikings, ,
Very interesting. The word also sometimes refers to people who inhabited a village community during the Viking Age
Viking travellers were seen by many as brutal raiders but were actually just farmers. 
Yeah, there was a lot of communities being settled and established and so a lot of merchants and trading going on,
Yes the great Viking expansion. The reached Eastern Russia, all over the middle east and parts of africa.
They were experienced and skilled sailors and had good navigational skills also.
Yes over the years they put those skills to the test and made their way all the way to Greenland, Iceland and Normandy. 
They were called the Askmen by the Germans because their boats were made of ash colored wood
, Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and Italy.
Viking travellers and colonists were seen at many points in history as brutal raiders. Many historical documents suggest that their invasion of other countries was retaliation in response to the encroachment upon tribal lands by Christian missionaries, and perhaps by the Saxon Wars prosecuted by Charlemagne and his kin to the south, or were motivated by overpopulation, trade inequities, and the lack of viable farmland in their homeland.
Information about the Viking Age is drawn largely from what was written about
but it was not used in this sense at the time. In Old Norse and Old English, the word simply meant 'pirate'.
The Norse were also known as , "ashmen", by the Germans, (Norse) by the Gaels and (Danes) by the Anglo-Saxons.
The Gaelic terms (Norwegian Viking or Norwegian), (Danish Viking or Danish) and (foreign Gaelic) were used for the people of Norse descent in Ireland and Scotland, who assimilated into the Gaelic culture