Other Viking Kingdoms?

So when I said viking kingdoms, I meant areas where vikings (or similarly naval raiders/settlers) could come from, not kingdoms they established.

Ohhh I misunderstood the original thread -

Ok well the Scotti according to this Wikipedia entry and I have read this many times before in other sources says;

"Charles Oman derived it from Gaelic Scuit, meaning someone cut-off. He believed it referred to bands of outcast Gaelic raiders, suggesting that the Scots were to the Gaels what the Vikings were to the Norse". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoti

Interesting however that many societies/cultures now considered defined by their current location were originally identified as either sea raiders or "land raiders" or an invasive force that had no definitive home to call their own.
 
Ohhh I misunderstood the original thread -

Ok well the Scotti according to this Wikipedia entry and I have read this many times before in other sources says;

"Charles Oman derived it from Gaelic Scuit, meaning someone cut-off. He believed it referred to bands of outcast Gaelic raiders, suggesting that the Scots were to the Gaels what the Vikings were to the Norse". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoti

Interesting however that many societies/cultures now considered defined by their current location were originally identified as either sea raiders or "land raiders" or an invasive force that had no definitive home to call their own.
Amusingly the word Gael itself comes from early Welsh Guoidel meaning Savage!
 
Isn´t the Viking Age really like a late part of the Migration period? Although groups like the Goths and the Vandals mainly went by land, they still did a lot of raiding and gradually settled and made new kingdoms. If you want something closer in time to the Vikings and more use of boats, I guess, as you mention, the Frisians might be a possibility. At what time did they become Christians?
 
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