ABSTRACT
With the support of the longboat, the warrior culture that sought wealth and celebrated valor in battle developed the occupation that made the Norsemen feared and famous throughout the European world. In medieval Scandinavian languages, viking means the act of going raiding overseas. Dwellers in English and French towns along coasts and rivers regularly prayed “may God deliver us from the fury of the Northmen,” referring to the Vikings who sacked monasteries for the wealth of the Christian church.
