Viking (disambiguation)

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Viking can refer to:

Contents 1 History 2 Aerospace 3 Music 4 Sports 5 Other uses 6 See also

[edit] History

• Viking Age, the period between 793 A.D and 1066 A.D in Scandinavia
• Viking, seafaring Scandinavians during the Viking Age (in the western trail)
• Varangian, seafaring Scandinavians during the Viking Age (in the eastern trail)
• Viking (ship), the reconstruction of a Viking ship which was sailed from Norway to North America in 1893

[edit] Aerospace

• Viking program, a NASA space probe program to send two unmanned space missions to Mars
  • Viking 1, launched August 1975
  • Viking 2, launched August 1976
• Viking Flying Boat Company, a failed aeronautical venture of Robert E. Gross
• Lockheed S-3 Viking, an anti-submarine aircraft
• Martin RTV-N-12 Viking rocket, first launched in 1949
• Vickers Viking, a Type 54 amphibian aircraft
• Vickers VC.1 Viking airliner
• Viking (satellite), the first satellite from Sweden

[edit] Music

• Viking (album), the second album by Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards
• Les Vikings de Guadeloupe, a French Antillean band
• Viking metal, a sub-genre of heavy metal.

[edit] Sports

• Viking F.K., a Norwegian football club from the city of Stavanger
• Minnesota Vikings, an NFL (American football) team
• A nickname for Real Madrid's supporters
• Denmark Vikings (Australian rules football), Denmark's national team
• Vikings Futsal Association and Vikings Pacific League, both related to the sport of Futsal in Australia.
• The name for all Western Washington University sports teams, participating in NCAA Division II
• UL Vikings, the University of Limerick (Ireland) American football team that plays in the Irish American Football League

[edit] Other uses

• Viking, Alberta, Canada
• Viking (appliance), a brand of luxury appliances made by Viking Range Corporation in Greenwood, Mississippi
• Viking Press (1926–1975), a New York based publishing company
• Viking automobile, manufactured by General Motors' Oldsmobile Division for model year 1929 and 1931
• Viking, once a store brand for appliances sold at Eaton's in Canada
• Viking BvS10, a fully amphibious armoured all-terrain vehicle 2003–
• Viking (beer), a brand of Icelandic beer
• Viking: The Ultimate Obstacle Course is a Japanese endurance game show
• Viking (lifeboat), Danish manufacturer of life-saving maritime equipment, perhaps best known for the ubiquitous Viking lifeboat
• Viking Tobacco, a company in Florida.
• East Vikings, Mascot of East High School in West Chester, Pennsylvania

[edit] See also

• The Vikings (disambiguation)