[Ads-l] Antedating of "Viking"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Viking (OED, "Vikingr" 1807, "Viking" 1840)

1801 Critical Review Oct. 124 (Google Books)  Such were the depredations by which the kings, sea kings, and vikingr of the north were distinguishing themselves in reciprocal murder and domestic ruin at the commencement of the eighth century.

1816 Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany Aug. 583/1 (ProQuest)  In 870, the Vikings, from the Irish shores, made a formidable descent on the Western confines of Strath-Cluyd.

Fred Shapiro

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