I don't know, may be this parallel has been drawn before. I did not search for whether it was or not. Somehow, I ended up reading about Vikings. Considering that our official history cannot be trusted, I was trying to figure out how the Norse seafarers were coexisting with other Scandinavian Nobility. I did not advance much in my endeavor, but I ran into a couple coincidences which I figured were worth sharing. Some of those coincidences pertain to the origin of words...

Vikings, Erik the Red and Eric VI the King of Sweden