Did you know the Viking were afraid of the Picts that lived in Scotland 
I did not know that. But I do know the Picts lived in eastern and northern Scotland, so I imagine they would run into each other.
Yes, I'm from Northern Scotland. The vikings seemed to be tough enough to defeat everyone else but the Scots. I think the vikings made it all the way to Africa and even North America.
Yeah the vikings were pretty tough and great at sailing the seas. At one point other countries viewed them as nothing more than brutal raiders
When in fact they were farmers looking for a new place to farm.
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
. The slightly later, expanded text known as ""Servius Danielis"" further distinguished them from the Picts of Scotland who he said colored their skin blue; but some later mediaeval traditions recounted by Bede and Holinshed dubiously purported to connect the Agathyrsi or Scythia directly with the Picts of Scotland.
Legacy.
The gloss preserved by Stephen of Byzantium explains that the Greeks called the Trausi the Agathyrsi and we know that the Trausi lived in the Rhodope Mountains.
In the 19th century, Niebuhr regards the Agathyrsi of Herodotus