alt Hacker News”Viking” is not a language, it’s not even an ethnic group. The language you’re probably referring to is Old Norse.
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OJFord • today at 4:35 PM
It is (was) a mechanism for language introduction though, to be fair.
benj111 • today at 4:42 PM
It's a culture.
If I said a word came from the hacker culture, is it relevant that hacker isn't a language and hackers aren't an ethnic group?
Colloquially, it is. See for example BBC’s recent headline “The Viking word hidden in the Declaration of American Independence” (https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260625-the-ancient-word...)