All hail the conquerors!
https://web.archive.org/web/20180201093400/https://mobile.twitter.com/Gematrinator/status/950781652573343745?p=v
I have to take a guess where the fake etymology came from. But since the answer to the question, "Does the word Viking have anything to do with 6 kings?" is no way, here's the real story.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/Viking
We'll play Dan for a bit here. What's the first few things that come to mind if you hear the word 'viking'? Other than football. Probably dudes swigging high powered ale hopping in ships and doing some creative raping and pillaging. So, it makes all kinds of sense to use your own language to name yourself. Freebooter sounds like they had an unhealthy interest in raiding villages for their shoes. You don't want to be walking around the fjords in bare feet. Raiders, pirates. Dang, these guys are popular for sports teams. I wonder if there's a minor league team in someone's farm animals system named the Creeks. Seems appropriate for a team owner or manager named Vic.
I can understand the common mistake about Vikings wearing horned helmets. That's probably Hollywood. People don't like to have their shoes stolen, so you want your pillagers to have a lot of visual hints that instantly associate them with being a total badass. Wearing fur. Check. Gigantic two handed sword. Check. Lots of unkempt hair. Check. Shoes badly in need of head or replacement. Check. Wait a second. They don't have anything on their head! (Other than unkempt hair). Let's throw on helmets, and since they're really badass, HORNS! Pillagers(no gematria story is complete without multiple Pi references) vs. Villagers. Villagers have nice shoes, farming tools for weapons and a nice crew cut. We need to see the 314 pillagers snarling and making berserker battle cries, so no panning the camera down to the shoes. We now have helmets with horns (which there's no historical evidence for) so we can distinguish between between badass berserker criers and villagers screaming because they crapped their pants, "SHIT! I just got these shoes for my birthday"!
That was a fun tangent for me, but serves a point also. Some things are commonly mistaken for whatever reason. I have absolutely no idea where this Vikings means 6 kings story originated. It's not common like horny helmets (which ties in nicely with the raping portion of Viking activity). But I did find a couple of Q and A forums where it was debunked for the reason of, not being true.
So we're left to some educated guess work. I think you'll agree and probably already figured it out by now. After all, we're talking about numerologists. VI-KINGS. Roman numeral 6 and Kings. Neither portion of which has anything to do with the Old Norse actual origin.
There isn't much historical overlap directly between Viking and Roman cultures. If you start counting offshoots and lineage you can stretch it. But there isn't the great battle of Gravius Mistakimus vs. Bjorn Vikander at the fields of Gematrixon to mark as a reason how Roman numerals crept in to the old Norse tongue. They had their own word for king, konungr. Instead of borrowing or being forced into subjugation and put under threat of being forced to go barefoot, six would probably been closer to German and the six kings would have been "sechskonung". Which the sechs part also ties in nicely to the raping portion of their activities. Oh mighty Romans! We have heard so much about you and your wonderful aqueducts and shoe technology! Mind if we borrow the number VI for a bit?
Let me guess further. The story of Viking raping activity, the ensuing shoe fetish and the six kings story was on Vikipedia. But they changed it to make you look bad.
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