Our tour guide and bus driver on my tour of Ireland 5 years ago would regale the passengers every time we came to a near collision with our huge bus on the impossibly narrow Irish roads.
"Viking!" he would spat while he muttered a disgusted oath under his breath at the driver of every oncoming car that cut too close to our bus.
...and the bad memories of Vikings continue in Scotland. At the new year, only a dark haired man is allowed to enter for "first foot." No blondes...