muelltonne‘Viking' was a job description, not a matter of heredity, massive ancient DNA study shows
It wasn’t even a job description, it was an activity.
No one “was a viking” people would just “go viking” for a while and then come back.
For mainland Europeans, they only encountered Norse while they were viking, so it makes sense that they became known as “the vikings” as a misnomer.
A bunch of them settled in mainland Europe too, they just didn’t call themselves vikings then and it was kind of like Superman putting on glasses. They just assimilated and got tossed in the genetic shuffle.
Boomer Humor DoomergodWhen my kids and I played Raft we’d calling “going viking” for this reason
“It’s an occupational hazard.”