There also is no mention of Troy, which was not far from Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine empire and militarily beyond the reach of the Vikings.

Although not mentioned by Asser or by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Alfred probably also paid the Vikings cash to leave, much as the Mercians were to do in the following year.

The means by which they marshaled the forces to defend against marauders also left the Anglo-Saxons vulnerable to the Vikings.

There were also five teams which the Texans had never beaten: the Baltimore Ravens ( 0-5 in regular season, 0-1 in playoffs ), Minnesota Vikings ( 0-2 ), New York Jets ( 0-5 ), Philadelphia Eagles ( 0-3 ) and San Diego Chargers ( 0-4 ).

Although the white jerseys of the Minnesota Vikings at the time also had a similar striping pattern and continued as such ( as well as the throwbacks the New England Patriots wore in the Thanksgiving game against the Detroit Lions in 2002, though the Patriots later wore the same throwbacks in 2009 with truncated stripes and in 2010 became their official alternate uniform ), the Colts and most college teams with this striping pattern did not make this adjustment.

In the years 1953 – 66 the Colts played in the NFL Western Conference ( also known as division ), but were never known to have a significant rivalry with any of the other franchises in that alignment, seeing as they were the eastern-most team and the rest of the division included the Great Lakes franchises Green Bay, Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears, and after 1961, the Minnesota Vikings.

Karlsen also discusses why on North Atlantic trips the Vikings might have preferred to navigate by the sun rather than by stars.

Coincidentally or not, the teams from Ole Haugsrud's high school, Central High School in Superior, WI, were also called the Vikings.

This injury was a very significant part to this Minnesota Vikings team due to the fact they also lost Moss.

Most notably the Vikings ( but also Arabs, Mongols and Magyars ) raided significantly.

Northumbria too succumbed to the Vikings, who founded the Kingdom of York, and the Kingdom of Strathclyde was also greatly affected.

Winfield was also drafted by the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League, the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association and the Utah Stars of the American Basketball Association.

Like the Vikings, the Chiefs also had an outstanding defensive line, which was led by defensive tackles Buck Buchanan and Curley Culp, and defensive ends Jerry Mays and Aaron Brown.

Chiefs head coach Hank Stram, who was also the team's offensive coordinator, devised an effective game plan against the Vikings.

Stram also concluded that the Vikings ' aggressiveness on defense also made them susceptible to trap plays ; Mike Garrett's rushing touchdown would come on a trap play.

However, the Vikings also could not take advantage of the turnover.

The Vikings were making their second Super Bowl appearance after also finishing the regular season with a 12-2 record, and posting postseason victories over the Washington Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys.

The Vikings also finished the regular season with a 12-2 record, winning their first nine games before a loss on Monday Night Football to the Atlanta Falcons.

The Vikings offensive line was also very talented, led by Ron Yary and six-time Pro Bowl player Mick Tingelhoff.

The Vikings also added 2 new weapons to their offense: veteran wide receiver Ahmad Rashad and rookie wide receiver Sammy White combined for 104 receptions, 1, 577 receiving yards, and 13 touchdowns.

The Vikings ' " Purple People Eaters " defense, anchored by Carl Eller and Alan Page, were also dominating teams again.

Originally a Frankish weapon, the winged spear also was popular with the Vikings.

The Vikings also reached Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland, and Anatolia.

The Vikings also established longphorts in Cork, Limerick, Waterford, and Wexford.

Scandinavian ( Norse ) Vikings explored Europe by its oceans and rivers through trade and warfare.

The Vikings ( from Old Norse ) were the Norse explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided, traded, explored and settled in wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands from the late 8th to the mid-11th century.

The Norse colonization of the Americas began as early as the 10th century, when Norse sailors ( usually referred to as Vikings ) explored and settled areas of the North Atlantic, including the northeastern fringes of North America.

Danish antiquarian Carl Christian Rafn was noted for his early advocacy of the theory that the Vikings had explored North America centuries before Christopher Columbus's and John Cabot's voyages.

During the Viking Age, the Vikings ( Scandinavian warriors and traders ) raided, colonized and explored large parts of Europe, the Middle East, northern Africa, and North America, more specifically the modern area identified as Newfoundland.

Vikings settled Greenland.

Led by Rollo, some Vikings had settled in Normandy and were granted the land, first as counts and then as dukes, by King Charles the Simple, in order to protect the land from other raiders.

After being settled by people from Ireland in the first millennium, the Isle of Man was converted to Christianity and then suffered raids by Vikings from Norway.

In 850, the Vikings settled at the mouths of the Seine and the Loire.

The Vikings and Scandinavians settled down and intermixed with the Irish.

In Normandy, which had been settled by Vikings, the Viking ship became an uncontroversial regional symbol.

Genetic studies in the British Isles of the Y-DNA Haplogroup R1a1, seen also across Scandinavia, have demonstrated that the Vikings settled in Britain and Ireland as well as raiding there.

* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France after being given a Duchy by the French King, conquered other lands and protected the French coast from foreign attacks.

From their first incursion into the lower valley of the Seine in 841, the Vikings overran Rouen until some of them finally settled and founded a colony led by Rollo ( Hrolfr ), who was nominated count of Rouen by the king of the Franks in 911.

To Europeans, Greenland was unknown until the 10th century, when Icelandic Vikings settled on the southwestern coast.

The Danish Vikings were most active in Britain, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal and Italy where they raided, conquered and settled ( their earliest settlements included sites in the Danelaw, Ireland and Normandy ).

The Danelaw resulted when Alfred the Great was forced to cede half his kingdom to the Vikings, who then settled there for a time and engaged in peaceful trade, but attacks eventually resumed and the English kings had to pay tribute ( Danegeld ).

Regardless whether the map is genuine, it is known that Greenland was settled by Vikings around 970, a settlement which lasted until the 15th century.

Practically all Viking metal bands claim that they are descendants of Vikings, and the Viking metal scene has spread from Scandinavia to areas that historically were settled by Vikings, including England, Russia, and Normandy.

Rather than conquering Ireland, the Vikings, who initially attacked and subsequently settled in Ireland, were, in fact, assimilated by the Irish.

Vikings settled in the region in 10th century and used the river to raid the rich monasteries deep inland.

It has also been suggested that the Vikings did not conquer Frisia, but settled in certain parts ( such as the island of Wieringen ), where they built simple forts and cooperated and traded with the native Frisians.

Both town and abbey suffered during the 9th century from the attacks of the Vikings, who later settled to the west in Normandy.

A few centuries after, in the period c. 850-1050 AD, the north and east of England and the islands and coasts of Scotland were settled by Norwegian and Danish ' Vikings '.

Wakefield was probably settled by the Angles in the 5th or 6th century and after 876 AD the area was controlled by the Vikings who founded twelve hamlets or thorpes around Wakefield.

An additional language, known as Norn, developed on Orkney and Shetland after Vikings had settled there around 800 AD, but this language became extinct around 1700.

The area was settled by Irish-Norse Vikings in the tenth century.