The term Viking is a problematic one that many historians avoid using for its Victorian connotations, and that its etymological source is unknown. Bernard Cornwell, the series author, uses a common theory that 'Viking' means 'to raid.' which has the term as a verb. The 'Vikingr' would then typically be viewed by a modern audience as pirates. However, debate is far from a consensus on the issue. Vikings as a modern term usually refers to the Scandinavians who crossed the North Sea to Iceland, Greenland, Britain and Normandy. Contemporary Saxon sources, however, referred to them as the Danes, or simply Northmen. Later raiders were identified as Norse, and so there seems to have been a distinction between northern and southern Scandinavians in the 9th and 10th Centuries.
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