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.
in Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Great Britain, Ireland and Normandy.
It is debated whether the term Viking represented all Norse settlers or just those who raided.
Motivation for expansion.
There is much debate among historians about what drove the Viking expansion. One widely held idea is that it was a quest for retaliation against continental Europeans for their previous invasions of Viking homelands, such as Charlemagne's campaign to force Scandinavian pagans to convert to Christianity by killing any who refused to become baptized. The historian
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