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Vikings are not an ethnicity! You're right, fellow viking! For example, there were Slavic vikings!
PRECISELY. VÍKINGR, MORE OR LESS, MEANS "SOMEONE WHO GOES ON EXPEDITIONS, USUALLY BY SEA, AND USUALLY IN THE COMPANY OF OTHER VÍKINGR."
OBVIOUSLY PRETTY HARD AT THE MOMENT, BUT I LIKE TO THINK THAT ALL OF MY FINE FOLLOWERS AND I ARE ON ONE BIG EXPEDITION TOGETHER!
Two richly decorated Thor’s hammers presented at the exhibition in the Swedish History Museum. Silver Thor’s hammer, decorated with bird-like head, was discovered in Skåne. Second Thor’s hammer was found in Bredsättra on Öland.
Various Thor’s hammers were discussed in Bo Jensen’s book entitled ‘Viking Age Amulets in Scandinavia and Western Europe’.
Beautiful glass game pieces which were discovered in the grave Bj 750 (Birka, Sweden) and used to play tactical game named hnefatafl.
More information about games and meaning of game pieces in the funerary context can be found in following publications:
Gardeła L. 2012: What the Vikings did for fun? Sports and pastimes in medieval northern Europe.
Hall M. A. 2015: Board Games in Boat Burials: Play in the Performance of Migration and Viking Age Mortuary Practice.
More photos from my visit in Statens Historiska Museet can be found in the post I Statens Historiska Museet.
Víkingr
Víkingr is a Norse masculine name composed of vík (inlet) and -ing (one belonging to), thus meaning: inlet dweller.
Variants:
Wichigus [Sir Henry Ellis 1833 A General Introduction to Domesday Book 2: 266].
Wichin [Sir Henry Ellis 1833 A General Introduction to Domesday Book 2: 266].
Wichincus [Sir Henry Ellis 1833 A General Introduction to Domesday Book 2: 266].
Wichinus [Sir Henry Ellis 1833 A General Introduction to Domesday Book 2: 266].
Wicing [William Searle 1897 Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum, page 485].
Víkingr [Erik Lind 1905-1915 Norsk-isländska dopnamn ock fingerade namn från medeltiden, column 1105].
Víkungr [Hugh Smith 1928 English Place-Name Society 5: 323].
Wiking [Agnes Robertson 1939 Anglo-Saxon Charters, page 200].
Wikyng [Agnes Robertson 1939 Anglo-Saxon Charters, page 240].
Wiching [Percy Reaney 1958 A Dictionary of Surnames, 1st edition, page 353].
Wikingus [Percy Reaney 1958 A Dictionary of Surnames, 1st edition, page 353].
Wichin [Percy Reaney 1958 A Dictionary of Surnames, 1st edition, page 353].
Vikingr [Hugh Smith 1962 English Place-Name Society 36: 302].
Wīcing [Margaret Gelling 1976 English Place-Name Society 51: 368].
Wikingꝰ [Alexander Rumble 1986 Domesday Book (Suffolk): chapter 7, paragraph 108].
Viking [Alexander Rumble 1986 Domesday Book (Suffolk): chapter 7, paragraph 108].
Vīkingr [Lena Peterson 2007 Nordiskt runnamnslexikon, page 255].
Víking [Keith Briggs 2021 An index to personal names in English place-names, 1st edition, page 276].
Wīcing [Keith Briggs 2021 An index to personal names in English place-names, 1st edition, page 284].
Note:
Forms ending with ꝰ, or -us, are Latinizations.
Stem:
VÍK = a small creek, inlet, bay [Guðbrandur Vigfússon 1874 An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, page 716].
Suffix (cognate with):
-ing = a suffix forming derivative masculine substantives, with the sense of ‘one belonging to’ or ‘of the kind of’, hence ‘one possessed of the quality of’ [Sir James Murray 1901 A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 1st edition, 5 (I, J, K): 282].
Definition:
víkingr = a freebooter, rover, pirate [Guðbrandur Vigfússon 1874 An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, page 716].
Usage:
A freeman called Wikingꝰ (Viking) lived in Suffolk during the reign of King Eadweard III the Confessor: “In Eade͛ . ɪx . liᵬi ho͛es . Aldulfꝰ . Aluricꝰ . Brihtricꝰ . Oſgotꝰ . Goda . Wihtmarꝰ . Brumanꝰ . Wikingꝰ . Leuricꝰ co͛m͛ᵭ . N.” (“In the same (Burgate) 9 free men; Aldwulf, Aelfric, Brictric, Osgot, Goda, Wihtmer, Brunman, Viking, Leofric; under the patronage of N(orman); 15 acres”) [Alexander Rumble 1986 Domesday Book (Suffolk): chapter 7, paragraph 108].
In Norwegian
Vikings: Uprising #1
Art by: Christopher Wahl
Detail of the D66
by Klaudia Karpińska (Hrafn Photography)
More photos in the gallery 'In the Moesgaard Museum' on the photoblog 'Hrafn Photography'.
