Of grim Vikings, and the rapture Of the sea fight, and
the capture, And the life of slavery. --Longfellow.
Note: Vikings differs in meaning from sea king, with which
frequently confounded. ``The sea king was a man
connected with a royal race, either of the small kings
of the country, or of the Haarfager family, and who, by
right, received the title of king as soon he took the
command of men, although only of a single ship's crew,
and without having any land or kingdom . . . Vikings
were merely pirates, alternately peasants and pirates,
deriving the name of viking from the vicks, wicks, or
inlets, on the coast in which they harbored with their
long ships or rowing galleys.'' --Laing.