Did Vikings ever fight samurai?

There are no known instances of Vikings and samurai engaging in armed combat, and such a claim would be pure conjecture. The furthest east that the Vikings traveled was the Middle East, and the furthest west that any Samurai ventured is Spain, and these excursions occurred centuries apart.
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Would a Viking beat a Samurai?

In terms of individual swordsmanship, the Samurai had elite skills. However, during their heyday, the Vikings, as a fighting force, vanquished Medieval Europe's finest armies and settled many of their people on foreign soil. By the slimmest of margins, the edge goes to the Vikings over the Samurai.
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What did most Vikings fight with?

Viking warriors fought using long swords and axes. A good sword was handed down from father to son, but Vikings also buried weapons with their owner when he died.
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Did Vikings ever fight Mongols?

The Vikings and Mongols never fought each other. Viking raids in Europe occurred between 793 and 1066 A.D., while the expansion of the Mongolian Empire began at the beginning of the 13th century.
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Who would win Viking or Spartan?

Most people agree that Spartans would win any battle with the Vikings. Spartans would be victorious because of their superior war tactics and since-childhood training. The Spartans fought in the Phalanx formation, considered one of the most effective war tactics in history.
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Who did the Vikings fear?

They were particularly nervous in the western sea lochs then known as the "Scottish fjords". The Vikings were also wary of the Gaels of Ireland and west Scotland and the inhabitants of the Hebrides.
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Did the Greeks ever fight the Vikings?

They fought bloody battles with both the French and Britons and slaughtered many monks along their marauding raids on Monasteries. But for the Byzantine Greeks in the south of Europe, these northmen, who became ol were known as the Varangians, and never caused a problem.
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Did the Vikings fight Genghis Khan?

No, the Vikings and the Mongols never met one another. They lived in different parts of the world. The Mongol Empire did not arise until about 200...
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Did Vikings fight Romans?

Although a confrontation between them would have been an epic battle for the ages, the Vikings and Romans never fought each other. Through its military conquests, the Roman Empire expanded as quickly as its mighty armies could mow down enemy soldiers and march through newly conquered lands.
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Who defeated the Vikings?

King Alfred and the Danes

King Alfred ruled from 871-899 and after many trials and tribulations (including the famous story of the burning of the cakes!) he defeated the Vikings at the Battle of Edington in 878.
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Who was the Vikings biggest enemy?

Over the following decades, there was regular warfare between the Vikings and the Irish, and between two groups of Vikings: the Dubgaill and Finngaill (dark and fair foreigners). The Vikings also briefly allied with various Irish kings against their rivals.
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Why were Vikings so physically strong?

Experts in the element of surprise

One of the reasons for this was the Vikings' superior mobility. Their longships – with a characteristic shallow-draft hull – made it possible to cross the North Sea and to navigate Europe's many rivers and appear out of nowhere, or bypass hostile land forces.
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Why were the Vikings so good at fighting?

Viking warriors fought using longbows and arrows, spears, long swords and axes. Metal swords were expensive and so would be used by richer warriors. A good sword was handed down from father to son, but Vikings also buried weapons with their owner when he died.
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Can samurai beat Spartan?

Samurai is the first matchup of the Back for Blood special of the TV Show Deadliest Warrior. It pitted the two ancient warriors from Season 1; Spartan and Samurai. After running 1000 battles. The Spartan came out victorious.
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Did samurai fight ninjas?

The ninja and the samurai usually collaborated. They did not fight against each other. However, on certain occasions, they fought against each other. Most of the time the samurai won.
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Did Romans ever fight Spartans?

The Romans and their allies then advanced upon Sellasia not far north of Sparta. The Romans were defeated in a small battle and they retreated. The Romans then won another battle against the Spartans and forced them to retreat into the city.
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Did Rome ever encounter Vikings?

Thus it is impossible for western Romans before 476 AD to ever encounter vikings since no Scandinavians ever went on viking raids to Roman territories until after the western Roman Empire fell. But Roman citizens and subjects and Scandinavians did meet sometimes.
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Could the Roman army beat a medieval army?

Ultimately, the Romans would almost certainly win a hand-to-hand, face-to-face fight, but Medieval warfare no longer revolved around that, and the heavy Knights and Longbowmen would likely make short work of the Legions before they could close for battle.
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Who came closest to conquering the world?

10 Empires that Came the Closest to World Domination
  • 1) The British Empire.
  • There was once a phrase: “the sun never sets on the British Empire.” Unlike many other sayings, this one is technically true, as it refers to the fact that the empire was so massive that at least one country in its holdings was in daylight.
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Did Ottoman defeat Mongols?

No, the Mongols rode over the Seljuk Turks in Anatolia after the Battle of Kose Dag in 1243 and the Ilkhanate subjugated Eastern Anatolia. The Mamluk sultanate in Egypt defeated the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut and they fielded a Turkic army, but it was not Turkey.
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Did the Vikings fight the Ottomans?

No, the Vikings did not fight the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire did not formally exist until 1299 C.E. The Viking Age came to an end in 1066 with...
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What did the Vikings call the Greeks?

On these runestones the word Grikkland ("Greece") appears in three inscriptions, the word Grikk(j)ar ("Greeks") appears in 25 inscriptions, two stones refer to men as grikkfari ("traveller to Greece") and one stone refers to Grikkhafnir ("Greek harbours").
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Who is Thor to Odin?

Thor (Old Norse: Þórr) is the Norse god of thunder, the sky, and agriculture. He is the son of Odin, chief of the gods, and Odin's consort Jord (Earth) and husband of the fertility goddess Sif, who is the mother of his son Modi and daughter Thrud; his other son, Magni, may be from a union with the giantess Jarnsaxa.
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Did the Vikings ever make it to India?

Contact between Sweden and the Indian subcontinent dates from at least the 8th century AD and the era of the Vikings.
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