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# viking

noun (a Viking, Vikings); adjective (Viking)

«viking» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. The Vikings were seafaring people from Scandinavia (now Norway, Denmark and Sweden) who long ago sailed far in longships to raid, trade, explore and settle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/viking/#m1)
2. Viking means of or about the Vikings: «a Viking longship». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/viking/#m2)

### In the lessons

In history lessons (especially in the UK and Ireland) pupils learn about Viking raids on monasteries like Lindisfarne, Viking settlements such as York (Jorvik) and Dublin, their gods (Odin, Thor, Loki), runes, sagas and long journeys to Iceland, Greenland and North America. Pupils also learn that most Vikings were farmers and traders, not only fighters. Words like «sky», «egg», «window» and «Thursday» came into English from the Vikings' language.

### Examples

- The Vikings sailed across the sea in longships. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/viking/#x1)
- Viking raiders attacked the monastery. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/viking/#x2)
- The Vikings founded the city of Dublin. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/viking/#x3)
- Thursday is named after the Viking god Thor. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/viking/#x4)
- Many Vikings were farmers and traders. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/viking/#x5)
- We wrote our names in Viking runes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/viking/#x6)
- Viking explorers reached North America long before Columbus. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/viking/#x7)
- The Viking had landed with his men. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/viking/#x8)

### Note

Usually a capital V. Myth: Vikings did not wear horned helmets in battle — that idea came from later artists and operas. «Viking» was really what they did (going raiding), not the name of one country.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «viking» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/viking/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«viking» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/viking.html) on Mova free.