The word viking in Old English actually means pirate. My Norse people that settled in Scotland so they were vikings, ,
Very interesting. The word also sometimes refers to people who inhabited a village community during the Viking Age
Viking travellers were seen by many as brutal raiders but were actually just farmers. 
Yeah, there was a lot of communities being settled and established and so a lot of merchants and trading going on,
Yes the great Viking expansion. The reached Eastern Russia, all over the middle east and parts of africa.