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": "Hello! Im interested in the Vikings, not the sports team but the people on the ships, I just dont know anything about them other then they wore cool looking hats"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I don't know a lot about them . they were at sea for extended periods for explorations and merchantile activities in Russian and the North atlantic areas"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh okay thats interesting. Didnt they raid places too? Like in fairytales they are depicted as big burly men, surely they did more then just trade at sea right"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I guess. The term viking is about home communities  during the Viking Age mostly"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh okay. How long were the vikings around for?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "From the eigth century to the eleventh in Scandinavian history after the Germanic Iron Age I believe"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh wow thats  awhile! What kind of ships did they sail on?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "They had advance sailing and navigational skill and sailed in the Meditteranean, North Africa , Asia I think."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Thats amazing. I wonder how they got any sense of direction because it was long before technology"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I know they settled in very diverse areas of Europe"}]