An old, slightly storybook word for a Viking — a man of the Norse people of Scandinavia in the days of long ships, farms, and raids. Writers use it in history tales and museums; few people say it at the bus stop. Though actually it is a little broader than “pirate”: a Norseman might farm at home and only sometimes go to sea. The word was made by the Scottish writer Walter Scott, so it has a literary feel, not a sailor’s feel. Today we usually say Viking for the fighting, seafaring picture, and Norwegian for a person from Norway now. A Norseman belongs to that older north-Germanic world (Norway, and the people who sailed from there), not to a modern passport. Spell it with a capital N.

維京人（文學、史書裡對北歐人的舊稱）