response: The Vikings were seafarers. They spoke Old Norse, raided Northern Europe around the 8th to 11th centuries.
original_response: Vikings are Norse seafaring pirates
history: I'm excited to know more about vikings from you
knowledge: Vikings (Old English: ''wicing''—''pirate'', Danish and ; Swedish and ; , from Old Norse) were Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central, eastern and western Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.