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Viking means one who goes Viking. Basicly it means to go to sea to raid and plunder. Not sure of the exact origin now that you mention it. I've read a bit of the sagas.But reading translations gives little insight as to where the words originaly came from. I'll look it up.Ps just saw the above post that sounds right.I noticed that it didn't mention the VENDEL or VINDEL not sure of the spelling they were pre RUSS. The norse are a recent field of study for me. Facinating people.The root words seem to mean travel and later on since most travel was by sea the words meaning changed a bit to be more like pirate. though technicaly the raids took place on land rather than capturing ships at sea. Interesting. http://www.thetroth.com/resources/ourtroth/migrat.html
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Just thought I'd mention here... I'm watching a rerun from B5, early in the fourth season when the Vorlons are going postal across the galaxy. They scrolled a list of planets in the region during Ivanova's broadcast ("Please remain calm" is still a great line!). I didn't catch many of the names, but I did notice they listed "Kazomi VII" and "7 Lukantha."
I'm guessing that 7 Lukantha was more like 40 Eridani or Alpha Centauri, as the number of the star in the constellation. So it seems that "Babylon 5" does use the roman numeral system after all... at least, part of the time...
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Well, in the vein (or vain) of this topic.... I would think that the term "Viking" would actually mean "Six Rulers" so possibly the "Xindi" are actually eleven races......hehe......
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