Viking type items?

Very hard to say from the photographs.

Stylistically I would say probably Indian and leaning towards the regions closer to N.East as there is a bit of a Tibetan look about it.

Add a picture of the bottom and the inside id possible, it might be a 19th Century spice box or something like that. COuld be a 'prayer wheel' if the bottom has a small rod-hole piercing on the underside.

Difficult to gauge the size and material , but I am assuming it is copper (and brass?) judging from the ropetwist ornament on the top

Thanks ! MAybe a picture of the underneath and the interior would solve it for us. size? looks about as tall as a pint glass, is it ?

It's Indian-looking engraving on the shoulder of that vessel. But it has a Buddhist influence to it - could be a prayer scroll holder