Viking warriors

explorer and founder of the first viking settlement in Greenland

King of Denmark, England, and Norway

Rollo (, Rolloun; ; ; – 933), also known with his epithet, Rollo "the Walker", was a Viking who, as Count of Rouen, became the first ruler of Normandy, a region in today's northern France. He emerged as a war leader among the Norsemen who had secured a permanent foothold on Frankish soil in the valley of the lower Seine. He was a prominent figure among the Vikings who besieged Paris in 885 and led the ill-fated Siege of Chartres in 911. The latter was nonetheless the catalyst for the consequential Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, which saw Charles the Simple, king of West Francia, grant Rollo l

King of Norway

10th-century Norwegian ruler

In the Old Norse written corpus, berserkers () were Scandinavian warriors who were said to have fought in a trance-like fury, a characteristic which later gave rise to the modern English adjective berserk . Berserkers are attested to in numerous Old Norse sources.

Viking Age poet, warrior and farmer

thumb|upright|Lagertha as imagined in a lithography by Morris Meredith Williams in 1913 Lagertha, according to legend, was a Viking ruler and shield-maiden from what is now Norway, and the onetime wife of the famous Viking Ragnar Lodbrok. Her tale was recorded by the chronicler Saxo in the 12th century. According to the historian Judith Jesch, Saxo's tales about warrior women are largely fictional; other historians wrote that they may have a basis in tales about the Norse deity Thorgerd.

legendary King of Denmark

thumb|alt=Refer to caption|right|Ubba's name as it appears on folio 48verso|v of British Library Harley 2278 (Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund): "''''"

thumb|300px|Storm in Hjørungavåg (1899) by Gerhard Munthe right|thumb|Jomsvikings fighting in a hail storm at the Battle of Hjörungavágr

A housecarl (; ) was a non-servile manservant or household bodyguard in medieval Northern Europe.

thumb|Hastein in Luna, Italy ca 859.Histoire Populaire de la France1st edition (1862), author: Ch. LahureHastein (Old Norse: Hásteinn, also recorded as Hastingus, Anstign, Haesten, Hæsten, Hæstenn or Hæsting and alias Alsting) was a Viking chieftain of the late 9th century who made several raiding voyages.

Son of Cnut the Great, ruled as King of Norway

Jomsviking

Viking chief who traveled to Persia

right|thumb|alt=Refer to caption|Bagsecg's name as it appears on folio 131r of British Library Cotton Tiberius B I (the "C" version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle): "''''".

Danish viking leader

Viking warrior burial, Birka, Sweden

noble and politician from Norway (980-1050)

Hvitserk (Hvítserkr, "White-Shirt") was one of the sons of the legendary 9th-century Viking Ragnar Lodbrok and his wife Aslaug.

Icelandic poet

A hersir was a local Viking military commander of a hundred (a county subdivision), of about 100 men, and owed allegiance to a jarl or king. They were also aspiring landowners, and, like the middle class in many feudal societies, supported the kings in their centralization of power. Originally, the term Hersir referred to a wealthy farmer who owned land and had the status of a leader. Throughout the Viking Age, Hersir was eventually redefined as someone who organized and led raids. In the 10th century, the influence of Hersirs began to decrease due to the development of effective national mona

Son of Danish king

thumb|Novgorodian ushkuyniks capturing Kostroma, miniature from the [[Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible (16th century)]] The ushkuyniks (, ), also spelled ushkuiniks, were medieval Novgorodian pirates who operated in the north of European Russia as well as along the Volga River until the 15th century.

Icelandic chieftain and poet

Sveneld (also called Svenald or Sveinald; ; or ), is a semi-legendary 10th-century Varangian warlord in the service of Sviatoslav I and his family. Most of the information about Sveneld is scarce. He is described as a rich man and a voevoda ("troop commander") of Kievan Rus', but his relation to the reigning Rurikid princes, if it existed, has not been positively established.

858-888

Chieftain from the Swedish province of West Götaland (909–975)

Sölve () was a sea-king who conquered Vendel-period Sweden by burning the Swedish king Eysteinn to death inside his hall.

Pretender to the Norwegian throne

Viking warrior

Viking jarl

Icelandic explorer

Norwegian Earl

Viking leader

Viking warrior

(775-807)

Norwegian explorer

Viking warrior

Hebridean viking

thumb|right|200px|U 518 tells of Freygeir's death, but there are two theories on where it was.Freygeirr (Old East Norse: FrøygæiRR, Modern Swedish: Fröger) was a Viking chieftain who probably led a leidang expedition. He is considered to have been active in the 1050s on the Baltic coast, and he has been identified on six runestones, Gs 13, DR 216, U 518, U 611, U 698 and U 1158. One of the three brothers who is mentioned on the Stenkvista runestone (Sö 111), which is adorned with a heathen symbol (Mjölnir), is also called Freygeirr.

thumb | right | Statue in Catoira, Galicia, commemorating the Viking invasions.Gundered (; putatively ; sometimes rendered Gunrod or Gunrød) was a Viking warlord, known only from a group of twelfth-century Spanish Latin Chronicles all of which derive from the lost eleventh-century Chronicle of Sampiro: the Historia Silense, the Liber chronicorum of Pelayo of Oviedo and Chronica Naierense. In the account of the Historia Silense: In the second year of his reign (Ramiro III, i.e. 968) one hundred ships of Vikings (Normani) with their king Gundered penetrated the cities of Galicia and with much sl