From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 18:46:31 GMT, Dorothy J Heydt   
    wrote   
   in in   
   rec.arts.sf.composition:   
      
   [...]   
      
   > A Viking is a Norseman who lives on his farm most of the   
   > year, but once the crops are planted and he has nothing   
   > much to do till harvest time, outfits his ship, calls in   
   > his friends, and sails down the _vik_ (fjord) to raid,   
   > trade, or both.   
      
   ( is 'inlet, small bay', not 'fjord'.)  The etymology   
   of  'pirate, freebooter', later 'robber,   
   highwayman', is unclear.  Derivation from , with the   
   original sense 'freebooter who lies in wait in inlets', is   
   one very reasonable possibility, but there is also evidence   
   against it: Old English  'pirate' occurs already in   
   the 8th century applied to sea raiders on the Saxon Shore,   
   before the Viking period, and the apparently cognate Old   
   High German personal name  also occurs in the 8th   
   century. There’s also an Old Frisian cognate or borrowing   
   with the sense 'pirate'.   
      
   [...]   
      
   Brian   
   --   
   It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their   
   holes to root for sandtatties.  The waves whispered   
   rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss,   
   haggisss.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)