Interesting, I never connected "viteaz" with viking. "Vitez" is a word that in many Slavic languages means "knight". In Hungarian it's "Vitéz". A short trip do

Interesting, I never connected "viteaz" with viking. "Vitez" is a word that in many Slavic languages means "knight". In Hungarian it's "Vitéz". A short trip down wikipedia and wiktionary leads me to Proto Slavic word vitędzь https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vit%C4%99dz%D1%8C https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/v... And indeed, there it is: > Based on the ethnonym Proto-Germanic *wīkingaz (whence Old Norse víkingr (“bay's dweller”)). I was a bit skeptical about your claim, but you were indeed right. Thanks for the little history and etymology lesson.