VIK neans VALLEY

“VIK” means “VALLEY”

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Here is how Reider T. Sherwin explained “VIK”:

VIK

“VIK” might have meant “”VALLEY” and/or the “RIVER” in the valley and/or the “BAY” the river flowed into.

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Based on the other definitions Sherwin wrote, “VIK” may be the “V” shape.

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Another spelling for ‘VIK” is “WICK.”  “SUNWICK” BAY is found on maps in America and in Norway.
(The “WICK” – “BAY” is redundant.)  
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“KENNEWICK” in the state of WASHINGTON implies that someone with OLD NORSE syllables in his head was walked in the “KENNE” (“WIDE”) “WICK (VALLEY).”

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I, personally, have learned that thinking of “VIK” as “VALLEY” results in the better understanding of things in America.  
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So with "VALLEY PLACE" in my mind, I used Google Earth to see if VIKING, OHIO was near a valley.  The Ohio "VALLEY PLACE has valleys on the south, west and north.
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The VIKING, MN town overlooks a broad Valley.  So, in two out of two locations, the implication is that “VIK” does mean “VALLEY’

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The VIKING name may have evolved in the 9th century, when the DANES settled in the valleys of England and the ANGLOS still held the hills.

The ANGLOS might have called the DANES the people who lived in the “VALLEY PLACE.” (VIKING).

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The war propaganda went on for over two  centuries.  During that time period, Norse people were switching to Catholism.  The Norse men began to wear feathers on their headgear as a symbol of their Christian faith.  The ANGLOS appear to have tried to turn the people in the VALLY PLACE (VIKING) into boogey men, who wore horns.

The ANGLOS survived the DANELAW invasion only to have another set of NORSEMEN return in the Norman invasion of 1066.  The ENGLISH prevailed in the assimilation struggle that followed.  Part of that struggle may have been a deliberate attempt to continue to portray the Norse as VIKING boogey men.

“VIK” means “VALLEY”
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