FOUR VIKING 'FACTS' (THAT ARE COMPLETELY WRONG)
THEY WERE ONLY RAIDERS AND REIVERS
Despite their wantonly violent reputation, the Vikings were traders, explorers and settlers as well as raiders. As a result of their forays to the British Isles, they founded the city) in AD 874, while in the east, Vikings made it all the way to Constantinople (now Istanbul), where several thousand formed an elite and much-vaunted corps loyal to the emperor – the Varangian Guard.
