Vikings and Their Age The word Viking has many definitions but in the book “Vikings and their Age” they describe it as a job description since it is said that the Vikings at the time were just part timers for such a position. They were mostly farmers, fishermen, chieftains and aristocrats. This shows that anyone could’ve been a Viking and that it wasn’t a year long thing for these people, it was described that they used the way of the Viking to continue receiving income for themselves and even to acquire fame for them to be known by their people. Consistently the word Viking didn’t come into common English until the 1800s, this would mean that they did not call themselves Vikings but instead they were called by the Anglo-Saxons used the word Wicingas, but also called different terms from different victims of Vikings such as; “Northmen, Norsemen, Danes, foreigners, pirate-ship men, pagans, and heathens.” (Somerville and McDonald, 1) All the terms that were used are based of uncertain etymology. Over the years the Vikings were the symbol of naval …show more content…
Also though many of that is true Viking culture even brought itself into local towns which in turn would harbor violence towards the church which some would call going Norse. Even now many people theorized that vikings were people that were not as evil as some would think and that they had a significant role in the downfall of the caroliniagn empire, For example some historians believe that Viking played a less significant role in its down fall then previously thought but in reality they still played a role against other power structures in the middle