[teytra]

Snorri uses it in several sagas (given time I might look it up, but not now).

In the christian middle ages it could be used as a translation for the word for pirat. So talking about "the age of the vikings" is really like talking about "the age of the pirats", where the people themselves are norse, danes or swedes etc.

[vintermann]

It was simply the word for pirate. They described pirates in the Mediterranean as vikings, despite them not being of Norse ethnicity or culture in any way.

[_0ffh]

Yep, this kind of meaning seems to have been in use until quite recently at least.

The 1967 Movie "The Viking Queen" is about a fictitious eastern English queen during the time of Roman occuption. She's definitely not Norse, but the intended meaning of "Viking" here is "a raider or plunderer".

[jprd]

Job description?

* Viking * Hedge Fund Manager * Miami Crypto Bro * Richard Gere in the beginning of Pretty Woman