All the traits we think a viking would have are all misconceptions. That they were a savage, barbaric people who pillaged and plundered villages for their own amusement. They always were drinking, eating, and attacking people, and they liked to smell like a mix of body odor and beer. In their pillaging they took things of religious value for their own wealthy ambitions.The Vikings were no doubt savage warriors and raiders but they were also a civilization full of adventure, discovery, religion, and structure, They did not destroy European civilization; they enriched it. The Religion of the Vikings The definition of paganism is “a polytheistic nature-worshiping religion” (2010 Wiley Publishing, Inc). Paganism is not a worship of a specific mythos