Vikings are pretty damn cool from Danish and Swedish descent.
yea they really are
They are Norse seafarers that spoke Old Norse language.
oh yea they were very cool
They are really old too, from the 8th to 11th century.
wow so long ago
, 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
language that they sometimes called the Danish tongue ("Dǫnsk tunga"), sometimes Norse language ("Norrœnt mál"), as evidenced in the following two quotes from Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson:
However, some changes were geographically limited and so created a dialectal difference between Old West Norse and Old East Norse.
As Proto-Norse evolved into Old Norse, in the 8th century, the effects of the umlauts seem to have been very much the same over the whole Old Norse area. But in later dialects