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VÃkingur ReykjavÃk
VÃkingur can refer to: * The Icelandic and Faroese word for Viking Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.Roesdahl, pp. 9â ... * VÃkingur Ólafsson (born 1984), Icelandic pianist * Knattspyrnufélagið VÃkingur, Icelandic association football club * VÃkingur Gøta, Faroese association football club * Ungmennafélagið VÃkingur (VÃkingur ÓlafsvÃk), Icelandic association football club {{DEFAULTSORT:Vikingur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viking
Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.Roesdahl, pp. 9–22. They also voyaged as far as the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean, North Africa, the Middle East, Greenland, and Vinland (present-day Newfoundland in Canada, North America). In their countries of origin, and some of the countries they raided and settled in, this period is popularly known as the Viking Age, and the term "Viking" also commonly includes the inhabitants of the Scandinavian homelands as a whole. The Vikings had a profound impact on the Early Middle Ages, early medieval history of Northern Europe, northern and Eastern Europe, including the political and social development of England (and the English language) and parts of France, and established the embryo of Russia in Kievan Rus'. Expert sailors and navigators of their cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VÃkingur Ólafsson
VÃkingur Ólafsson (born 14 February 1984) is an Icelandic pianist. He has performed with leading orchestras in Europe and America, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Tonhalle Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Santa Cecilia, and with such conductors as Thomas Adès, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Santtu-Matias Rouvali. VÃkingur has won numerous awards, including Album of the Year at the 2019 ''BBC Music Magazine'' Awards for ''Johann Sebastian Bach'', Opus Klassik Award for Solo Instrumental in 2019 and 2020, and the Rolf Schock Prizes, Rolf Schock Prize in Music in 2022. VÃkingur's album ''Philip Glass Piano Works'' saw him named "Iceland's Glenn Gould" by the ''New York Times'', and a "breathtakingly brilliant pianist" by ''Gramophone (magazine), Gramophone''; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
