The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word VIKINGS
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More clues leading to the result VIKINGS
- Seafaring pirates having sex with men
- Shortly to compete with notable college from Scandinavia
- Norse or English ones called George?
- Six family gardens cleared for TV series
- Six rulers are Norsemen
- Scandinavian seafarers' six greatest leaders
- NFL team with six men at the top of the heap?
- Raiders’ six sovereigns
- Minnesota team four up on Royals
- Pagans adding verse to biblical book
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What does VIKINGS mean?
VIKINGS noun- One of the Scandinavian or other Northern European seafaring warriors that raided (and then settled) the British Isles and other parts of Europe in the 8th to the 11th centuries and, according to many historians, were the first Europeans to reach North America.
- (by extension) A stock character common in the fantasy genre, namely a barbarian, generally equipped with an axe or sword and a helmet adorned with horns.
- A Norseman (mediaeval Scandinavian).
- (mildly) An ethnic Swede, Norwegian, Dane, Icelander or Faroe Islander.
- A player on the Minnesota Vikings NFL team.