Seeing as it's pirate day, do we consider vikings pirates, they are not far off in the way they earned money but with very difforent rules
Ohhhh might be better to ask
@conzibald or
@Slumdum or one of the other nordic types here, but as far as I know questions like this deserve a pitcher of beer and a tavern to drink it in ..................................
"Viking" was not a full-time 'job'; the people who went off on those trips were generally farmers like everyone else. In that sense it was "something you did and not who you were" but that does not make the word a verb. Soooooo No, it is not a 'type of pirate' but in fact the way it was used included 'pirate' but was even broader than that.
(buys another pitcher of beer)
A pirate commits armed robbery at sea. A viking (or a person going viking) generally just sails somewhere to commit armed robbery on land. It's like the difference between Cavalry (fights on horseback) and Dragoons (rides into position and dismounts to fight) or between a fighter pilot and a paratrooper.
(buys another pitcher of beer)
Which is not to say that no Norsemen ever committed piracy, there was plenty of overlap, but they are, to me at least, different things.
(buys another pitcher of beer - notices a buxom wench - then forgets what I was talking about. )
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