Anyone else feel how Christian biased history taught at school is?

[KichigaiNeko]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking

Etymology

The Old Norse feminine noun víking refers to an expedition overseas. It occurs in Viking Age runic inscriptions and in later medieval writings in set expressions such as the phrasal verb fara í víking "to go on an expedition". In later texts such as the Icelandic sagas, the phrase "to go viking" implies participation in raiding activity or piracy, and not simply seaborne missions of trade and commerce. The related Old Norse masculine noun víkingr appears in Viking Age skaldic poetry and on several rune stones found in Scandinavia, where it refers to a seaman or warrior who takes part in an expedition overseas.[4]

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I am of the opinion that people of the 20th and 21st Century have forgotten how easy it would be to travel vast distances by water and just how close Scandinavia and Europe and the British isles really are.