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Svensk Uppslagsbok, a major Swedish encyclopedia printed in the 1950s
gives the following:


    Icelandic "vikingr" of disputed origin; earliest found in
    Anglo-Saxon, but usually understood as being of Nordic
    origin, interpreted, among other things, as a construction
    from "vik" ("bay" in English), that is "man who with his
    ship anchors or hides in bays", or to the province name
    "Viken", the land around the Oslo Fiord, i.e. "man from
    Viken", or to the verb "vika" in an assumed meaning "abscond
    from home, dwell away", i.e. "person who absoncd from home,
    dwell away"; is the word of Anglo-Saxon origin, it would
    probably be a derivation from the Anglo-Saxon "wic", army
    camp, referring to the from the 9th century permanent camp
    of vikings.

Comment: "abscond" is "avvika" in modern Swedish.
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