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Nobody who is sane would dare to claim that viking is a verb.
So this is sending me into a frothing rage every time I hear this: Apparently the sentence "Viking is a verb" has become some kind of meme amongst people who pretend to know anything about Vikings. But it's just 100% wrong. It's like these people were saying the sky is green and grass is blue. Viking is a noun. It's a noun in English and it's a noun in Old Norse, the language the vikings spoke.
Example:
What these people are trying to say is that "viking" is not an ethnicity, but more like a job description. But it's still a noun.
If any Bernds care I'll elaborate and even provide sources from sagas saying "xy var víkingr mikill" (xy was a great viking) and stuff like that.
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Exactly like that.
I'm not an expert on music, but I don't think we have surviving "viking songs" because they didn't write down music. I know there are musical experts who try to recreate stuff, but I don't know how and I don't know how accurate it is and I have also forgotten the name of the group I remember listening to :DDDD*
However, I can post some examples of medieval scandinavian music that have some pagan themes in the lyrics, although they probably(and some for sure) come from already christian times.
*I remembered: Sequentia. YouTube: T0vrXzZzr38 Maybe this is what recital of myths with music sounded like in pagan norway during the viking age. Maybe not.
YouTube: 7ae4D7uwZns (Check out more of Sigurboði's stuff if you want to play things on a lute. He also uses medieval instruments like that.)
> Classic sentence to spot someone with no idea what he is talking about.
Classic sentence to spot someone who thinks he knows what he's talking about when in fact he knows very little. I've studied linguistics, mostly on quite modern IE languages but had experience with older ones too (including the old Norse languages). So I do have a slight idea what I am talking about and therefore claim - old languages are crap, good thing we evolved.