I love learning about Vikings, its one of my favorite time periods of history. 
Vikings are cool and there is a lot of mythology around their culture. They are Norse seafarers speaking old Norse language.
Yea there really is.  For example apperantly they never wore horned helmets.  I always found that interesting. 
I guess movies tend to get carried away. They are known to have raided and traded throughout Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central, eastern and western Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.
Yep I agree.  However the recent history show called "Vikings" seems to be fairly accurate historically. 
Yeah, I think we are currently heading towards a more accurate historical recount rather then some made up fantastical notion.
I love that I think history is cool enough and there is no need to drastically alter things when you are making a show/movie.
Vikings
Vikings were Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who, from the late 8th to late 11th centuries, raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of Europe, and explored westwards to Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland. The term is also commonly extended in modern English and other vernaculars to the inhabitants of Norse home communities during what has become known as the Viking Age. This period of Nordic military, mercantile and demographic expansion constitutes an important element in the early medieval history of Scandinavia
would have made horned helmets cumbersome and hazardous to the warrior's own side.
Historians therefore believe that Viking warriors did not wear horned helmets; whether such helmets were used in Scandinavian culture for other, ritual purposes, remains unproven. The general misconception that Viking warriors wore horned helmets was partly promulgated by the 19th-century enthusiasts of "Götiska Förbundet", founded in 1811 in Stockholm. They promoted the use of Norse mythology as the subject of high art and other ethnological and moral aims.
The Vikings were often