Vikings


 * Erroneously depicted wearing horned helmets
 * Raiders
 * Scandinavian
 * Used longships
 * Discovered Newfoundland under Leif Ericson
 * Formed Great Heathen army after razing Lindisfarne
 * Collected a tax called danegeld to stop their raids
 * Formed the Varangian Guard in the Byzantine Empire
 * Guarded Basil II
 * Ivar the Boneless commanded them to hide the head of Edmund the Martyr in a hedge
 * Alcuin blasted them in a letter to Bishop Hygbald