Show THE NEWS WAS RIGHT in support of the opinion advanced by the NEWS as to the literal meaning of the word viking the tribune today quotes an authority as aa follows the literal sense la Is a creek dweller vt one of the men who haunted the bays creeks and fjords root icelandic tik ihk c a creek inlet bay with suffix inar t air ang anglo saxon ing in the sense of allson on of or belonging to so also swedish vik danish vig a creek cove the orl original inal sense of vik mk is a bend or recess root boot icelandic dikia vikja to turn veer trend recede swedish vika to give way recede danish vige this is ig entirely satisfactory it la 11 rather strange though that any new paper writer should have represented the word as meaning literally a pirate for although this may be the ide i for which the term now generally stands the literal sense of viking should admit of only one opinion |