How did vikings get their title? QUICK!!!!!!!!?

Question

I know that vikings got their title from doing somthing miraculous like finding greenland or being a king but what i actually mean was there a ceremony to go with it or were they knighted by the king any help would be great thnx.

Answer 1

Vikings got their name by stealing, trading, and raiding villages. There was no ceremony or anything. It had begun when they Started to raid villages and go to steal and trade. As they went on more people joined them and sooner or later there was tons of them. It ended up that they once were outnumbered and one by one they all died off. Even though there are some today. But the Name Vikings means Norsemen. They call them norse men because the raided the north.

Answer 2

The etymology of "Viking" is somewhat unclear. One path might be from the Old Norse word, vík, meaning "bay," "creek," or "inlet," and the suffix -ing, meaning "coming from" or "belonging to." Thus, viking would be a 'person of the bay', or "bayling" for lack of a better word. In Old Norse, this would be spelled vikingr. Later on, the term, viking, became synonymous with "naval expedition" or "naval raid, and a vikingr was a member of such expeditions. A second etymology suggested that the term is derived from Old English, wíc, ie. "trading city" (cognate to Latin vicus, "village"). vikingr "to go on an expedition"), and víkingr, to a seaman or warrior taking part in such an expedition. In Old English, the word wicing appears first in the 6th or 7th century in the Anglo-Saxon poem, 'Widsith.'

Answer 3

They weren't worth to be kings so hence vikings

Answer 4

Ah!  You're asking about the practice of "bynames."  

A byname is any secondary name that is used to further identify a person.  There are several kind of bynames that were used by the Norse (aka "vikings"):

1.  Patronymic

"Patronymic" means "father's name."  This is the kind of byname Leif Ericsson had.  His father was named Eric, so his byname was literally "Eric's Son"  Female names could be formed this way, too.  Leif's sister was called Freyadis Ericsdottir.

2.  Descriptive.

These were nicknames based on a physical feature.  Eric the Red was so called because he had red hair.  

Ivar the Boneless apparently had a rare genetic disease that caused his bones to deteriorate.  He lost the ability to walk and had to be carried everywhere.  It's a testament to his early sucess and the respect he garnered among his men that they would be willing to do this.

3.  Occupational.

These weren't as common among the Norse as say the English, but they were used.  "skattkaupandi" for instance means "tax collector" and was used a byname.

4.  Locative.

These were byname based on a location, like where you lived or where you had travelled from.  For instance, "Aðalmarr Lundi" means "Adalmar from Lund"

5.  Reputation

Bynames could also be based on a person's reputation.  For instance, Harald Hadrada (who fought Harold Godwinson a few months before William the Conqueror) was originally known as "Sigurdsson" (a patronymic) but he became known as "Hadrada" (Hard Ruler) because of his policies.

6.  Title

Titles were only used as byname occassionally and there appear to have only been three such titles used:

King = "Konunger"

Earl = "Jarl"

Steward = "Bryti"

The Norse didn't have "knights" -- that was something thier decendents, called Normans, would invent a couple centuries later.  Therefore, there were no knighting ceremonies.

The only naming ceremony I'm aware of was the one for naming a child and it was fairly straightforward:  The farther would take the infant in his arms and declare, "I claim this child as my son/daughter.  His/her name is _____."

Answer 5

The word Viking comes from the Old Norse word "vikingr", lit. "one who came from the fjords", from "vik", meaning a bay, creek, fjord or inlet. By the end of the Viking period, the term both referred to pirates of robbers operating by sea, known as "vikingr" in West Norse, and was used as a term for sea-born warfare and harrying in the West Norse "viking."

In general, parents named their children after a deceased relative or hero. In some way the child was believed to inherit with the name the gifts or personality of their namesake: this belief almost seems to have been one of reincarnation of the named relative in the new child once the name was bestowed

Answer 6

It came from their appearance,Eric had red hair hence the title Eric the Red also Ivor the B*ner....well,we won't go into that.

Answer 7

Raiding Villages