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What is a viking saga?

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A Norse saga is a true story, written about 1000 years ago in gammel-norsk or icelandic. Many of these are about viking, and are referred to as viking sagas.

It is important to note that viking is a verb : it referred to what the people did, rather than who they were. Viking was a form of piracy, where people went to see in good, seaworthy boats, capable of long voyages. The essential difference between viking and piracy was that the attacks were not on other ships but on villages or towns on, or close to, the seashore.

All the Norse sagas are worth reading, whether the viking content is dominant or minimal.

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