my brother thinks he is a viking.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Vikings (Old English: \"wicing\"\u2014\"pirate\", Danish and ; Swedish and ; , from Old Norse) were Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central, eastern and western Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries. The term is also commonly extended in modern English and other vernaculars to the inhabitants of Viking home communities during what has become known as the Viking Age. This period of Nordic military, mercantile and demographic expansion constitutes an important element in the early medieval history of Scandinavia, Estonia, the British Isles, France, Kievan Rus' and Sicily. Facilitated by advanced sailing and navigational skills, and characterised by the longship, Viking activities at times also extended into the Mediterranean littoral, North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. Following extended phases of (primarily sea- or river-borne) exploration, expansion and settlement, Viking (Norse) communities and polities were established in diverse areas of north-western Europe, European Russia, the North Atlantic islands and as far as the north-eastern coast of North America.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Did you know the Viking were afraid of the Picts that lived in Scotland "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I did not know that. But I do know the Picts lived in eastern and northern Scotland, so I imagine they would run into each other."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, I'm from Northern Scotland. The vikings seemed to be tough enough to defeat everyone else but the Scots. I think the vikings made it all the way to Africa and even North America."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah the vikings were pretty tough and great at sailing the seas. At one point other countries viewed them as nothing more than brutal raiders"}, {"role": "user", "content": "When in fact they were farmers looking for a new place to farm. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Historians disagree on what they think drove them to seek expansion. One idea is they were rebelling against other Europeans who invaded them previously"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Either way they failed. Not many vikings around any more. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "True, not even their language really stuck around. Not many people who speak old norse anymore"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I was recently in Finland and went to see a band that sang songs in it. It was not the most beautiful langue I've heard. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well, it is a north germanic language, so I can see that being true haha. Not exactly the languages of love"}]