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* Viking Air-Canadian manufacturer that purchased the type certificates from Bombardier for all discontinued de Havilland Canada designs ( except for the Dash 8 Series 400 ), allowing Viking to build and sell them
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* Viking Technology, a solid-state drive manufacturer
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They went on to produce Clover, Acme, Hummer, Gem, Crown, Crest Light, Bon-Ton, Crayel, Velazquez, Buster, Old Master, Viking, Bril-Tone, Murillo and other crayon lines before eventually being purchased by Binney & Smith Inc. in 1958.
Later in the same year Effoa and Johnson Line jointly purchased Rederi Ab Sally, one of the owners of their rival Viking Line.
In 1994 Cunard purchased the rights to the name of the Royal Viking Line and its Royal Viking Sun.
Usually considered lethargic and inept – he is known to have had repeated illnesses and is believed to have suffered from epilepsy – he twice purchased peace with Viking raiders, including at the famous siege of Paris in 886.
With its added payload capacity and heavier protection, it was purchased for urgent service in Afghanistan, and is designated to eventually replace the entire Viking fleet.
On 24 February 2006, Viking Air of Victoria purchased the type certificates from Bombardier Aerospace for all the original De Havilland designs including:
The Decorah-Posten ceased publication in 1972 when it was purchased by Western Viking.
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: M a late derivation of the multi-lobed Viking pommel type, found frequently on tomb effigies during 1250-1350 in southern Scotland and northern England, but with few surviving examples
While the pattern of hilt and blade design of this type might readily be called " the Viking sword ", to do so would be to neglect the widespread popularity it enjoyed.
Karves were a type of small Viking ship similar to the knarr.
Chess is a popular type of recreation favored by the Icelanders Viking ancestors.
A Viking was a type of seafaring Scandinavian seen from the eighth to eleventh century AD.
The Dane Axe is an early type of battle axe, primarily used during the transition between the European Viking Age and early Middle Ages.
As Ahmad ibn Fadlan observed in his writing Journey to Russia, every Viking carried a “ sword of the Frankish type.
Over the decades several organizations were interested in production of the versatile DHC-6 Twin Otter, the rights to which were acquired, with several other de Havilland type certificates, in 2006 by Viking Air of Victoria, British Columbia.
This pattern of commerce seems to be confined to the area of Kilkenny and Waterford which may mean a distinctive and quite unique type of Viking colonisation and settlement in the south-east of Ireland.
Near his palace at Cardross on the River Clyde he spent his last days in shipbuilding ; and one royal man-of-war of the Viking type at least was equipped by him before he died in 1329.
The use of bombards or cannon as naval armament had a great effect in modifying the construction of the old trireme and Viking type of war vessel.
Archaeological excavations at Viking burial sites indicate that the Fjord horse type has been selectively bred for at least 2, 000 years.
Archaeological findings show that the Nordic Viking ship was by no means a standard type vessel.
The Viking sword was the main type of sword used in North Western Europe during the Viking Age.
Viking and certificates
" Those whose DNA falls into the designated haplogroup are issued Viking Descendant certificates by the testing service.
The ownership of the certificates gives Viking the exclusive right to manufacture new aircraft.
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Bishop Asser claimed that the ' pagans ' agreed to vacate the realm and made good their promise ; and, indeed, the Viking army did withdraw from Reading in the autumn of 871 to take up winter quarters in Mercian London.
Nor did his piety prevent him from expropriating strategically sited church lands, especially estates along the border with the Danelaw, and transferring them to royal thegns and officials who could better defend them against Viking attacks.
" It is unknown when Alfred launched this programme, but it may have been during the 880s when Wessex was enjoying a respite from Viking attacks.
Snorri especially quotes passages from Bragi's Ragnarsdrápa, a poem supposedly composed in honor of the famous legendary Viking Ragnar Lodbrók (' Hairy-breeches ') describing the images on a decorated shield which Ragnar had given to Bragi.
During the Viking Age, Birka ( Birca in medieval sources ), on the island of Björkö ( literally: " Birch Island ") in Sweden, was an important trading center which handled goods from Scandinavia as well as Central and Eastern Europe and the Orient.
Kenneth's son Constantine died in 876, probably killed fighting against a Viking army which had come north from Northumbria in 874.
Northumbria may have been divided by this time between the Viking kings in York and the local rulers, perhaps represented by Eadulf, based at Bamburgh who controlled the lands from the River Tyne or River Tees to the Forth in the north.
There are more reports of Viking fleets in the Irish Sea from 914 onwards.
Irish, it remained largely under Viking control until the Norman invasion of Ireland was launched from Wales in 1169.
In 1945 Wollheim edited the first hardcover anthology from a major publisher and the first omnibus, The Viking Portable Novels of Science.
It was first mentioned as " Ilfing " in The Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan which was written in Anglo-Saxon in King Alfred's reign using information from a Viking who had visited the area.
The term Edda ( Old Norse Edda, plural Eddur ) applies to the Old Norse Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, both of which were written down in Iceland during the 13th century in Icelandic, although they contain material from earlier traditional sources, reaching into the Viking Age.
Another, possibly first-hand, account of the use of Greek fire comes from the 11th-century Yngvars saga víðförla, where the Viking Ingvar the Far-Travelled faces ships equipped with Greek fire siphons:
The Viking Age, a period of migrations of Scandinavian peoples, dominated the period from the late 700s to the middle 1000s.
The Normans, a Viking people who settled in Northern France and founded the Duchy of Normandy would have a significant impact on many parts of Europe, from the Norman conquest of England to Southern Italy and Sicily.
The people that emerged from the interactions between the new Viking aristocracy and the already mixed Franks and Gallo-Romans became known as the Normans.
Tring and Danais became one, Dacorum, from ( Danis Corum or Danish rule harking back to a Viking not Saxon past ).
Vocabulary items entering English from Norse ( including the pronouns they, and them ) are thus attributable to the on-again-off-again Viking occupation of Northern England during the centuries prior to the Norman Conquest ( see, e. g., Canute the Great ).
Dál Riata flourished from the time of Fergus Mór in the late fifth century until the Viking incursions that commenced in the late eighth century.
* 927 – Æthelstan, King of England, secures a pledge from Constantine II of Scotland that the latter will not ally with Viking kings, beginning the process of unifying Great Britain.
Longships were sea vessels made and used by the Vikings from the Nordic countries for trade, commerce, exploration, and warfare during the Viking Age although scientific analysis of the oak timber shows at least one well known ship was built in Dublin, Ireland.
The average speed of Viking ships varied from ship to ship but lay in the range of 5 – 10 knots and the maximum speed of a longship under favorable conditions was around 15 knots.
Analysis of timber samples from Viking long boats shows that a variety of timbers were used, but there was strong preference for oak which was associated with Odin ( Wodin ) in Viking mythology.
A Viking named Stjerner Oddi compiled a chart showing the direction of sunrise and sunset, which enabled navigators to sail longships from place to place with ease.
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