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# viking

«viking» in Mova's school dictionary: **The Vikings were seafaring people from Scandinavia (now…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/viking/#m1)

2) Viking means of or about the Vikings: «a Viking longship». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/viking/#m2)

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

### In the corpora

- [The Vikings were Norse people from Denmark, Norway and Sweden.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings/2/)
- [By the 1000s their lands were Christian kingdoms, and the Viking Age faded.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings/7/)
- [Vikings did not wear horned helmets; that idea came from costumes in a 19th-century opera.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings/10/)
- [Viking longships were light and fast, with sails and oars, and could cross the sea and sail up shallow rivers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings/11/)
- [In 793 Vikings raided the monastery of Lindisfarne in England, and this is often called the start of the Viking Age.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «viking» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/viking/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.