Baseball player for the NY Mets traced to Viking ancestry ?

It is common today to mix up the terms viking and norse, which has not the same meaning. Viking means pirat, with unspecified origin. Among real documented vikings are the greek king Phillippus II of Macedonia and arabic pirates who attackked Sigurd Jorsalafarer. The term you probably mean is Norse.

Please don't spam, Dan.

This is the third time I have encountered the same objection, which means there are probably more.

Norse *went* a-viking (roving, raiding), so they got called Vikings. Fair enough.