Lego Vikings
Encyclopedia
Vikings is a stand-alone theme originally released in Fall of 2005. It is based upon the Norse
Norsemen
Norsemen is used to refer to the group of people as a whole who spoke what is now called the Old Norse language belonging to the North Germanic branch of Indo-European languages, especially Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Swedish and Danish in their earlier forms.The meaning of Norseman was "people...

 warrior
Warrior
A warrior is a person skilled in combat or warfare, especially within the context of a tribal or clan-based society that recognizes a separate warrior class.-Warrior classes in tribal culture:...

s most commonly referred to as Viking
Viking
The term Viking is customarily used to refer to the Norse explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided, traded, explored and settled in wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands from the late 8th to the mid-11th century.These Norsemen used their famed longships to...

s, as well as their mythology
Norse mythology
Norse mythology, a subset of Germanic mythology, is the overall term for the myths, legends and beliefs about supernatural beings of Norse pagans. It flourished prior to the Christianization of Scandinavia, during the Early Middle Ages, and passed into Nordic folklore, with some aspects surviving...

.

Land of the Vikings

The Lego Vikings theme is represented within the Legoland Windsor
Legoland Windsor
Legoland Windsor is a child-oriented theme park in Windsor, Berkshire in England, themed around the Lego toy system. The park opened in 1996 on the former Windsor Safari Park as the second Legoland after Legoland Billund in Denmark. The park is located within close distance of Windsor Castle and...

 theme park in the UK as an area called 'Land of the Vikings', which opened in 2007.

Products

  • 7015 Viking Warrior challenges the Fenris Wolf

Minifigs: 1 Viking.
  • 7016 Viking Boat against the Wyvern Dragon
    Wyvern
    A wyvern or wivern is a legendary winged reptilian creature with a dragon's head, two legs , and a barbed tail. The wyvern is found in heraldry. There exists a purely sea-dwelling variant, termed the Sea-Wyvern which has a fish tail in place of a barbed dragon's tail...


Minifigs: 2 Vikings.
  • 7017 Viking Catapult versus the Nidhogg
    Níðhöggr
    In Norse mythology, Níðhöggr is a dragon who gnaws at a root of the World Tree, Yggdrasill.-Prose Edda:...

     Dragon

Minifigs: 2 Vikings.
  • 7018 Viking Ship challenges the Midgard Serpent

Minifigs: 6 Vikings.
  • 7019 Viking Fortress against the Fafnir
    Fafnir
    In Norse mythology, Fáfnir or Frænir was a son of the dwarf king Hreidmar and brother of Regin and Ótr. In the Volsunga saga, Fáfnir was a dwarf gifted with a powerful arm and fearless soul. He guarded his father's house of glittering gold and flashing gems...

     Dragon

Minifigs: 6 Vikings.
  • 7021 Viking Double Catapult versus the Armored Ofnir Dragon

Minifigs: 3 Vikings.
  • 7020 Army of Vikings with Heavy Artillery Wagon

Minifigs: 7 Vikings.
  • G577 Vikings Chess Set

Minifigs: 24 Vikings.

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