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The form occurs as a personal name on some Swedish runestones. The origin of wicing is disputed, with some believing that it is a loan-word from Old Norse. The earliest reference to wicing in English sources is from the Épinal-Erfurt glossary which dates to around 700, whereas the first known attack by Viking raiders in England at Lindisfarne was in 793.

In Asser's Life of Alfred the Danes are referred to as pagani (pagans), but this is usually translated as 'Vikings', in modern English, which some regard as a mistake. It was not seen as a reference to nationality, with other terms such as Norþmenn (Northmen) and Dene (Danes) being used for that. The Anglo-Saxons regarded the word wicing as synonymous with pirate and in several Old English sources wicing is translated into the Latin pirata. In the Middle Ages it came to mean Scandinavian pirate or raider. Runestone raised in memory of Gunnarr by Tóki the Viking.

6.4.3 Use of skulls as drinking vessels.

3.1.2 Runic alphabet usage in modern times.

2.3.1 Emergence of nation-states and monetary economies.

These representations are rarely accurate-for example, there is no evidence that they wore horned helmets, a costume element that first appeared in Wagnerian opera. Current popular representations of the Vikings are typically based on cultural clichés and stereotypes, complicating modern appreciation of the Viking legacy. Perceived views of the Vikings as violent, piratical heathens or as intrepid adventurers owe much to conflicting varieties of the modern Viking myth that had taken shape by the early 20th century. A romanticised picture of Vikings as noble savages began to emerge in the 18th century this developed and became widely propagated during the 19th-century Viking revival.

Popular conceptions of the Vikings often strongly differ from the complex, advanced civilisation of the Norsemen that emerges from archaeology and historical sources. Most Vikings were also farmers, fishermen, craftsmen and traders. The Vikings had their own laws, art and architecture. For most of the period they followed the Old Norse religion, but later became Christians. The Vikings spoke Old Norse and made inscriptions in runes. During the Viking Age, the Norse homelands were gradually consolidated from smaller kingdoms into three larger kingdoms: Denmark, Norway and Sweden. While spreading Norse culture to foreign lands, they simultaneously brought home slaves, concubines and foreign cultural influences to Scandinavia, influencing the genetic and historical development of both. They were the first Europeans to reach North America, briefly settling in Newfoundland ( Vinland). The Vikings also voyaged to Constantinople, Iran, and Arabia. The Normans, Norse-Gaels, Rus' people, Faroese and Icelanders emerged from these Norse colonies. Įxpert sailors and navigators aboard their characteristic longships, Vikings established Norse settlements and governments in the British Isles, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Normandy, and the Baltic coast, as well as along the Dnieper and Volga trade routes across modern-day Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, where they were also known as Varangians. The Vikings had a profound impact on the early medieval history of Scandinavia, the British Isles, France, Estonia, and Kievan Rus'. In some of the countries they raided and settled in, this period is popularly known as the Viking Age, and the term "Viking" also commonly includes the inhabitants of the Scandinavian homelands as a collective whole. They also voyaged as far as the Mediterranean, North Africa, Volga Bulgaria, the Middle East, and North America. Vikings is the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and settled throughout parts of Europe.

A Viking Age depiction from the Tjängvide image stone, on Gotland.