Vikings

She unpacked the scrap-book in order to gaze a last time at the wood engraving of the Vikings, sword in hand, leaping upon the English sands.

At supper the men ate like vikings, and the chocolate cake, which I had hoped would linger on until tomorrow in a mutilated condition, disappeared on the second round.

He was a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, raw-boned Viking, big-bodied and strong-muscled despite his age.

Such is the king to whom Viking chieftains bowed their heads, and whom the modern and palatial steamship defies with impunity seven times a week.

Marshall Elliott looked like a Viking of elder days, dancing with one of the blue-eyed, golden-haired daughters of the Northland.

Moreover, her husband walking with a quick rhythmic stride, jerking his free hand occasionally, was either a Viking or a stricken Nelson; the sea-gulls had changed his note.

I believe in my heart of hearts that he suffered as much about Lucy's death as any of us, but he bore himself through it like a moral Viking. If America can go on breeding men like that, she will be a power in the world indeed.

Kurt left him, andwhen he came to look about him the first thing he saw pasted on the padded wall was a reproduction, of the great picture by Siegfried Schmalz of the War God, that terrible, trampling figure with the viking helmet and the scarlet cloak, wading through destruction, sword in hand, which had so strong a resemblance to Karl Albert, the prince it was painted to please.

A TERRIFYING sight awaited visitors to Crackley Hall when the school was invaded by dastardly vikings from the Dark Ages.

Martin J Dougherty's VIKINGS A History of the Norse People is a volume is filled with maps, drawings, photos of surviving artefacts and well researched text.

With a gross tonnage of 47,800 tons, Vikings ocean ships boast 465 cabins and accommodate 930 passengers.

The Vikings, Scandinavia's seafaring warriors from the 8th to 11th centuries, are best known as plunderers and killers.