Viking Emoji

Unicode names no emoji Viking, so copy the beard, axe and shield, or pick a longship, runes or a combo.

Viking Emoji

🧔🪓🛡️VikingU+1F9D4 U+1FA93 U+1F6E1 U+FE0FReady to copy

52 items. Tap one to copy it.

The closest you can paste 8

Viking combos 14

Longship and sea 8

Scandinavia, farm and trade 12

Runes and plain text 8

ASCII longship and shield 2

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How it works

Viking emoji copy and paste starts with a combo of three: Person: beard, Axe and Shield. The longship, the shield wall and the jarl are built the same way, from emoji that do exist.

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Beard, axe, oar and sail

Wikipedia records that most Viking men had beards and shoulder-length hair, and that Vikings were unusual for their time in using axes as a main battle weapon. Their longships were rowed, and later also sailed: hence Sailboat and Person rowing boat, which CLDR files under oar.

Who the Vikings were

A seafaring people from Scandinavia, by Wikipedia: present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the three flags here. They spoke Old Norse and cut inscriptions in runes, so two lines of runes are among the tiles.

  • Younger Futhark has only 16 runes, by Wikipedia, so one rune stands for u, v and w.
  • Most Vikings also farmed, fished, traded or worked a craft. The combos Farmer, mostly and Trader are for them.
  • Black bird, from Emoji 15.0, is the only emoji CLDR files under raven.

Questions and answers

Is there a Viking emoji?

Not by name. Unicode’s emoji list, version 18.0, names no emoji Viking, and CLDR files no emoji under Viking, Norse or longship. The closest you can paste is a combo: 🧔🪓🛡️.

What emoji can I use for a Viking ship?

⛵ Sailboat after 🐉 Dragon: Wikipedia notes carvings of longships with dragon heads on the bow stem. The combo Longship adds a wave, and there is an ASCII longship to copy too.

Did Vikings wear horned helmets?

No evidence says so. Wikipedia records that no depiction of a Viking warrior’s helmet, and no preserved helmet, has horns, and that the horned costume first appeared in the 19th century. The combo No horns on the helmet says as much.

How do you write Viking in runes?

In Younger Futhark, the runes of the Viking Age: ᚢᛁᚴᛁᚴ. Wikipedia’s table gives one rune k, g and the ng sound, so six letters take five runes. It is a swap of letters, not Old Norse spelling. Rune translator swaps any word.

All 52 items

The closest you can paste 8

  • Axe U+1FA93. Filed under ax, hatchet and chop. Wikipedia notes that Vikings were unusual for their time in using axes as a main battle weapon. Emoji 12.0.
  • Crossed swords U+2694 U+FE0F. Filed under swords and crossed. Emoji 1.0.
  • Man: beard U+1F9D4 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F. The man form. Filed under bearded and man. Emoji 13.1.
  • Military helmet U+1FA96. The only emoji filed under warrior. Emoji 13.0.
  • Person: beard U+1F9D4. Most Viking men had beards and shoulder-length hair, by Wikipedia. Filed under beard and whiskers. Emoji 5.0.
  • Sailboat U+26F5. For a longship. Filed under sailing and sea. Emoji 0.6.
  • Shield U+1F6E1 U+FE0F. For a shield wall. Filed under shield. Emoji 0.7.
  • Viking Person: beard, then axe, then shield. Unicode names no emoji Viking, so this spells one.

Viking combos 14

  • Farmer, mostly Person: beard, then sheaf of rice, then ewe.
  • Fjord Snow-capped mountain, then water wave.
  • Hammer and thunder Hammer, then high voltage.
  • Jarl Person: beard, then crown.
  • Longship Dragon, then sailboat, then water wave.
  • No horns on the helmet Military helmet, then prohibited, then ram.
  • Raid at dawn Sunrise, then sailboat, twice.
  • Runestone Rock, then writing hand.
  • Saga night Open book, then fire.
  • Shield wall Shield, three times.
  • Shieldmaiden Woman, then shield, then crossed swords.
  • Skald Person: beard, then musical notes.
  • Trader Sailboat, then coin.
  • Two ravens Black bird, twice.
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Longship and sea 8

  • Anchor U+2693. Filed under ship. Emoji 0.6.
  • Compass U+1F9ED. Wikipedia describes Vikings as sailors and navigators of their longships. Filed under navigation and direction. Emoji 11.0.
  • Dragon U+1F409. Wikipedia notes carvings of longships with a dragon head on the bow stem. Filed under knights and dragon. Emoji 1.0.
  • Person rowing boat U+1F6A3. Filed under oar and row. Longships were rowed, and later also sailed. Emoji 1.0.
  • Snow-capped mountain U+1F3D4 U+FE0F. Filed under snow and cold. Emoji 0.7.
  • Snowflake U+2744 U+FE0F. Filed under cold and snow. Emoji 0.6.
  • Water wave U+1F30A. Filed under ocean and wave. Emoji 0.6.
  • Wind face U+1F32C U+FE0F. Filed under wind and blow. Emoji 0.7.

Scandinavia, farm and trade 12

  • Black bird U+1F426 U+200D U+2B1B. Filed under raven and crow. Emoji 15.0.
  • Coin U+1FA99. For the traders among them. Filed under silver and treasure. Emoji 13.0.
  • Crown U+1F451. The only emoji filed under medieval. Also filed under king. Emoji 0.6.
  • Ewe U+1F411. Most Vikings were also farmers, by Wikipedia. Filed under farm and wool. Emoji 0.6.
  • Fire U+1F525. Filed under flame and burn. Emoji 0.6.
  • Fish U+1F41F. Many Vikings fished for a living, by Wikipedia. Filed under fishing. Emoji 0.6.
  • Flag: Denmark U+1F1E9 U+1F1F0. Vikings came from Scandinavia, by Wikipedia: present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Emoji 2.0.
  • Flag: Norway U+1F1F3 U+1F1F4. Present-day Norway is the second country Wikipedia names as their home. Emoji 2.0.
  • Flag: Sweden U+1F1F8 U+1F1EA. Present-day Sweden is part of the Scandinavia the Vikings came from. Emoji 2.0.
  • Hammer U+1F528. For the craftsmen among them. Filed under tool. Emoji 0.6.
  • Rock U+1FAA8. Filed under stone and boulder. Emoji 13.0.
  • Wood U+1FAB5. Filed under timber and lumber. Emoji 13.0.

Runes and plain text 8

  • ᚠᚢᚦᚬᚱᚴ The first six Younger Futhark runes: f, u, th, ą, r, k
  • ᚢᛁᚴᛁᚴ Viking in Younger Futhark runes: one rune writes k, g and ng
  • all beard, no horns For a profile line.
  • born to sail, forced to row For a Monday.
  • gone raiding, back by supper For an away message.
  • \_(o)(o)(o)(o)_/ A longship on one line, four round shields in a row
  • raid the fridge, feast till dawn For a late snack.
  • to the longship For a group chat.

ASCII longship and shield 2

  • ASCII longship A striped sail, four shields and a curled head on the bow. Plain ASCII, 22 columns wide.
  • ASCII round shield A round shield with a boss in the middle. Plain ASCII, 13 columns wide.

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-08 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Unicode names no emoji Viking: every name in that list and every CLDR search word was searched for viking, norse, longship and scandinavia, and none was found. The facts about Vikings are from Wikipedia, restated (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings, CC BY-SA 4.0): a seafaring people from Scandinavia, now Denmark, Norway and Sweden; they spoke Old Norse and wrote inscriptions in runes; most were also farmers, fishermen, craftsmen and traders; most men had shoulder-length hair and beards; axes were a main battle weapon; they fought in shield walls; no evidence shows them wearing horned helmets. Longships as clinker-built warships moved by oars and later also by sail, their striped or checked sails and the carvings of ships with dragon heads on the bow stem are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longship. That the Younger Futhark has 16 runes, was in use through the Viking Age, and writes u, v and w with one rune and k, g and the ng sound with another is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Futhark; the rune characters and their names are from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt). The two ravens and the hammer of the thunder god are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huginn_and_Muninn and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor. Jarl, skald, shieldmaiden, shield wall, fjord and saga are as Wiktionary defines them (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jarl, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skald, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shieldmaiden, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shield_wall, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fjord, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/saga, CC BY-SA 4.0). The combos and their names, the lines and the two ASCII drawings are this site’s own work; nobody has standardised them. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.

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