2002-04-11 Vikings
Apr. 11th, 2002 12:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Did you know that the word `Viking' should be read as `Vik-ing' and not `Vi-King'? The word vik means `harbor' or `bay' in old Swedish... The world could be translated almost literally as `sailor' I think, rather than a sort of king.
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Date: 2005-04-12 08:16 pm (UTC)Hm. Thunder god of sailing?
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Date: 2005-04-13 12:58 am (UTC)Now that's the kind of rugged "bay" a Viking hails from.