🇬🇧🇪🇸 Viking - Vikingo : English Lesson

Meaning of "Viking" ("Vikingo"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A Viking was a person from the Scandinavian countries (like Norway, Denmark, and Sweden) who lived more than 1,000 years ago. Vikings were famous for sailing in long wooden ships across rough seas. They sometimes attacked towns to steal treasure, but they were also traders, farmers, explorers, and settlers. Some Vikings even discovered and lived in new lands far away from home. Today, people remember Vikings for their strong ships, their adventurous journeys, and their special stories and myths.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

At breakfast, the Viking attacked his pancakes like a village, leaving no survivors on the plate.

A Viking knocked on the door and politely asked, “May I raid your cookie jar, please?”

Instead of a fearsome battle cry, the Viking shouted, “Where’s the bathroom on this boat?”

On his first day as a Viking, he got seasick and asked if he could just be the snack manager.

One Viking explorer (Leif Eriksson) reached North America about 500 years before Columbus.

A Viking steered a low wooden longship into a sheltered bay. A Viking with a round shield climbed the shore, carrying a child on his shoulders. Two Vikings laughed, and another Viking tapped an iron sword at the rocks, pointing to distant cliffs. The child pressed his face to the waves; the Vikings cheered.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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