The rough climate and tricky landscape of Scandinavia didn't let people making productive agriculture and year-round trading, although brave northern character and willingness have made vikings the courageous travelers and conquerors. The second point comes without saying, because in those ancient times foreign trips were made either for slaves or as slaves. And, of course, passion for gold was always universal among the barbarians all over the world. Of course, gold is also a universal language, clear for everybody. There is nothing bad in it. Being the ancestors of pirates, vikings were also hiding their gold in sacred places. Find one of them is a great luck, which you can try to catch playing on «Viking's Treasure» slot machine.