i am 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": "assistant", "content": "The word viking in Old English actually means pirate. My Norse people that settled in Scotland so they were vikings, ,"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Very interesting. The word also sometimes refers to people who inhabited a village community during the Viking Age"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Viking travellers were seen by many as brutal raiders but were actually just farmers. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah, there was a lot of communities being settled and established and so a lot of merchants and trading going on,"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes the great Viking expansion. The reached Eastern Russia, all over the middle east and parts of africa."}, {"role": "user", "content": "They were experienced and skilled sailors and had good navigational skills also."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes over the years they put those skills to the test and made their way all the way to Greenland, Iceland and Normandy. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "They were called the Askmen by the Germans because their boats were made of ash colored wood"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I think you mean Ashmean. I like to think of them as Norsemen because of the largest settlement they had in Norse Greenland."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Thank you. another myth about them is that they wore horned helmets. No evidence found of that."}]