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.
, 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 Many historical documents suggest that their invasion of other countries was retaliation in response to the encroachment upon tribal lands by Christian missionaries, and perhaps by the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
. 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