Vikings are so cool with the old norse language they had in nothern europe and all that
Oh yeah, they're awesome. Especially with their helmets and everything they wore.
, Estonia, the British Isles, France, Kievan Rus' and Sicily.
Facilitated by advanced sailing and navigational skills, and characterised by the longship, Viking activities at times also extended into the Mediterranean littoral, North Africa, and the Middle East. Following extended phases of (primarily sea- or river-borne) exploration, expansion and settlement, Viking (Norse) communities and governments were established in diverse areas of north-western Europe, Belarus, Ukraine and European Russia, the North Atlantic islands and as far as
the 9th to the 13th century. In the earlier period, and especially when outside Scandinavia, they are also often called Vikings.
Although the early North Germanic peoples definitely had a common identity, it is uncertain if they had a common ethnonym. Their identity was rather expressed through the geographical and linguistic terms The North Lands (Old Norse: Norðrlönd) and The Danish Tongue (Old Norse: Dönsk Tunga).
In the Old Norse language, the term "norrœnir menn" ("northern men"),