Viking is a verb. To vike. To raid, to commit an act of piracy.

I know I will never win this battle, but I will keep trying.

Also, they were amazing traders and long distance travelers. We've found silk, meaning they were trading at least to the end of the silk road. We've found evidence that some "vikings" weren't of European descent.

One group of families in Iceland has Native American mitochondrial DNA, no doubt connected to the Norse colonies in North America. They failed, but apparently not without some exchanging of genetic material.

Another myth you forgot: Vikings were dirty.

In fact, there are contemporary complaints that the vikings were "stealing" all the women because they were so clean.