GOODBYE TO THE VIKINGS.

The article discusses the origin of the use of the term Viking in the 19th century. Topics include the different uses of the term in Old English and Old Icelandic, the use of the word during the 1860s to describe all early medieval warriors from Scandinavia, evidence showing that there is no such thing as Viking, and some surviving textual sources about the use of the term in late 18th and 19th centuries.