Norsemen, the indigenous or ancient name for Viking; it is the name of the people from Scandinavia. It includes the areas which today are part of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia and northern Germany. The real term used was just Norse (no Norse people ever called themself a "viking", also the helmet with the two horns is only fiction). They were interested in colonizing new areas towards the East and West, althought fights is documented too. There is many theories of why they begun to make voyages, from the hypotesis that some people didn't like the new govermental system with kingdom, to the fact that they invented technolgies for building ships.