However, the old Vikings have triumphed once more, even in their graves, and Professor Rafn can prove as conclusively that his fierce ancestry trod the soil of Boston as that the Mayflower Puritans followed in their footsteps.
Thrand and the rest of the vikings escaped any way they could, and sailed away westwards.
A number of the vikings were killed, and others were so injured that they could fight no more.
The vikings laughed and said: "Trolls take the rascal Treefoot and lay him even with the ground.
Vikings have been here, men whom I know as the worst in all Norway, namely Thorir Paunch and Ogmund the Bad.
Then thevikings tried to escape, but could not, as their ships were in the narrowest part of the channel and were impeded both by the current and by the enemy's ships.
The Vikings came boldly on, thinking they had caught them in a trap.
The vikings seeing it thought they were taking to flight, and pushed on with all their might, coming under the rock just at the moment when the party which had been dispatched for that purpose arrived.
Onund and Thrand followed them thither with five ships, and when the vikings sighted them and saw how many there were, they thought their own force was sufficient, so they took to their arms and advanced to the attack.
They launched upon the vikings stones so huge that nothing could hold against them.
As soon as Onund had recovered from his wound, Thrand went with his party to Geirmund Swarthyskin, who was the most eminent of the vikings in the West.
We were taken prisoners two years ago by vikings from Norway, when visiting our father in a village near the Forth fiord.
The noise we made, however, roused the village and prevented the vikings from discovering our father's room, which was on the upper floor.
The women whom the Vikings brought with them were captives of the lowest grade, ravished from their homes for the pleasure of their captors on their long sea voyage.
She came of right by her seafaring proclivities, for from the earliest period the O'Malleys have been celebrated as rivalling the Vikingsin their love of the sea.
Vikings made several invasions in the ninth century for which a danegeld tax on land was assessed on everyone every ten to twenty years.
Vikings used to issue on their daring voyages, in which the descendants of these grand fellows still dwell, and in which are interesting memorials of the past and quaint evidences of the present.
They were a bold, fearless set, the Norse Vikingsof old.
Sing no more, O ye bards of the North, Of Vikings and of Jarls!
The Vikings that came up from the sea were greater in number by far than the warriors of Sigmund.
Then there came up a great band of Vikings from the shore, and their leader was Alf, son of the King of Denmark.
Wherever he went his foes made way before him, and full many were the Vikings who fell by his magic sword.
Then Olaf sailed southwards out to sea, and had a battle at Hringsfjord, and took a castle situated at Holar, where vikings resorted, and burnt the castle.
As they sailed out into the Baltic, they were captured by vikings of Eistland, who made booty both of the people and goods, killing some, and dividing others as slaves.
Why don't you go to Hakon Ivarson, who is my officer for the land-defence, placed on purpose to keep the peace for you peasants, and to hold the vikings in check?
They had 150 ships, and they had heard that the Jomsborg vikings had come in from sea, and lay at the island Hod; and they, in consequence, rowed out to seek them.
Then he sailed to the Hebrides, where there were many vikings and troop-kings, who joined their men to his.
Although the vikings fell in with the country people, the people never told the truth about what the earl was doing; and the vikings went on pillaging and laying waste.
In the wing of the opposite array of the Jomsborg vikings was Bue the Thick, and his brother Sigurd, with 20 ships.
Then King Olaf proceeded westwards to Grislupollar, and fought there with vikings at Williamsby; and there also King Olaf gained the victory.
The Jomsborg vikings had larger and higher-sided ships; and both parties fought desperately.
Yet their influence was greater than that of the Vikingsin any other country, for the Russian empire was entirely a Northern creation.
In the meantime Vikings had destroyed Hamburg, and not before its bishopric had been united to that of Bremen was Ansgar in a position to visit Sweden for a second time.
There is, therefore, scarcely a possibility that Danish Vikings should have brought with them from their native land any experience in hunting great whales.
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During the incursions of the pagan Vikings Christianity was almost certainly extirpated and it was probably not reintroduced before the beginning of the 11th century.
Vikings were merely pirates; they might be peasants and vikings by turn, and won their names from the inlets, the viks or wicks, where they harbored their ships.
A sea-king must be a viking, but naturally very few of thevikings were sea-kings.
The strength and courage which they had shown in many a battle-field on the land was now transferred to the sea, soldiers and knights becoming vikings and pirates.
Shortly afterwards the chief of the vikings died, and Hervarth took command of the band.
The vikings had been scared by the rumblings and the flames on the island.
A little while after she departed alone, dressed and armed like a man, and joined some vikings and stayed with them for a time, calling herself Hervarth.
The very same tale has been heard by the Northmen Vikingsas they lay on their shields on deck; and by Arabs couched under the stars on the Syrian plains when the flocks were gathered in and the mares were picketed by the tents.
For my Vikings love song and saga, Like their conquering fathers of old; And these are some of the stories To the three little tyrants I told.
In olden times the Vikings sailed the seas and brought home many a treasure from foreign shores.
My young Vikings have each made a good collection of souvenirs.
I like those old fancies that the Vikings had about the sea and the sky and the winds," she said at last, stretching her arms wide and dancing from end to end of the deck.
The Vikings must have loved the lakes and bays of the Northland," she said.
The Vikings had no such easy way as this of getting from Lake Mälar out into the Baltic Sea," said Lieutenant Ekman, coming up to find the children, and helping himself generously to the kringlor.
The Vikings had a fashion of taking what they wanted without paying for it," suggested Birger.
He was himself a fine specimen of the race of vikings who have made England the queen of the seas.
It was said to have been a rendezvous for the old-time vikings of the northern seas, as it was at this day for the smugglers.
Like all those Vikings of the North Pacific, he was essentially a man who did things, not a theorizer on how things ought to be done, not a slug battening on the things other men have done.
It is the spirit of the heroic ages, and to that era belongs the history of the Vikingson the North Pacific.
So, while the Vikings tossed fearlessly about the wild northern seas, the Arab wayfarers rode eastward by well-known caravan tracks, trading and teaching the ways of Mohammed.
But then had not theVikings already discovered this country five hundred years before?
Now, while these fierce old Vikings were navigating unknown seas, Alfred the Great was reigning over England.
The Vikings had tossed fearlessly over their stormy northern seas to the yet unknown land of America, but this was long ago.
The careless glee with which they seized either sword or oar and waged war with the stormy seas for a scanty livelihood, raiding all the neighbouring coasts, had earned them the name of Vikings or creek men.
Some three hundred years were to pass away before further discoveries in these quarters revealed new lands, three hundred years before the great energy of the Vikings brought to light Iceland, Greenland, and even the coast of America.
Vikings were merely pirates, alternately peasants and pirates, deriving the name of viking from the vicks, wicks, or inlets, on the coast in which they harbored with their long ships or rowing galleys.
Note: Vikings differs in meaning from sea king, with which frequently confounded.
Out there theVikings sailed away to new lands," said Erik, who was never weary of dreaming about the heroes of the old sagas.
Many hundred years ago, when the bold Vikingssailed out from our harbours and conquered far and wide, King Agne ruled in Upsala.
Those old Vikings were as strong as giants and feared nothing in the world.
When theVikings awoke from their heavy sleep, they were wild with rage.
The noble families of Russia, for the most part descendants of the Scandinavian adventurers who had come in with Rurik, were as proud in their way as the descendants of the vikings who came to England under William of Normandy.
For two years Vladimir dwelt with his Varangian kinsmen, during which time he lived the wild life of a Norseman, joining the bold vikings in their raids for booty far and wide over the seas of Europe.
The old Scandinavian vikings used to carry such things about with them, in the belief that by so doing they would be protected from all personal harm.
It was interpreted to the effect that one of the old vikings "had found much fee in Orkhow," and that this treasure had been buried "to the northwest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vikings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
