Common words that came from the Vikings

Probably you’ve never studied Conversational Viking, let alone claimed to speak it.
However, the language of the Vikings, Old Norse, has influenced the development of English more than any other language besides French and Latin. In olden times the Swedes, Norwegians, Icelanders and Danes all spoke Old Norse, usually called the “Danish tongue.”
In the 11th century, Old Norse was the most widely spoken European language, ranging west with Leif Erickson’s colonization of Vi