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Here's John Bachelor.

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I'm John Bachelor. It is the late 8th century in Europe and a new phenomenon sweeps

over what is now the United Kingdom and Ireland, which is something that we think of as Vikings more

properly their Norsemen. They came to murder, they came to steal, they came to wipe out whatever was there. In England's case, it was the Anglo-Saxons left over from the exit of the Romans.

And they came to stay eventually. And then they became restless. A new book, American Vikings, how the

Norse sailed into the lands and imaginations of America. Martin Wittic is the author,

I congratulate him, and we begin immediately with the economics

of Vikings and the meaning of the word Vikings and what is propelled men and women in to quote the Iliad their dark

boats their shallow boats what propelled them to sail west and west and west into what becomes

the new world. Martin congratulations and good evening I asked the first question

that everybody needs to understand. What does Viking mean?

Where does it come from? Good evening to you. Good evening. Thank you for having me on the

show. Well Viking is more something that you did than what you were, although today it's become

the label of choice.

Describe Scandinavians in the so-called Viking Age.

And I do explain this in the book,

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