"Though some Viking women buried with weapons are known, a female warrior of this importance has never been determined and ...

A new study shows that pregnancies during the Viking Age were far from a private matter, closely tied to conflict, social ...

New research is finding that some women in Viking Age Scandinavia were buried with war-grade weapons. Experts are divided ...

Archaeologist Julia Wihlborg suggested that the sword and shield of the Hårby Valkyrie may represent a woman who had manly ...

These were not passive bodies. Together with recent studies of Viking women buried as warriors, this provokes further thought to how we envisage gender roles in the oft-perceived hyper-masculine ...

A surviving singular Viking Age figurine convincingly displays ... "While we are careful not to present simplified narratives about pregnant warrior women, we must acknowledge that at least ...

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These were not passive bodies. Together with recent studies of Viking women buried as warriors, this provokes further thought into how we envisage gender roles in the oft-perceived hyper-masculine ...

According to the Norse sagas, divination women, or völvas ... raising the question of whether female warriors were actually regarded as men in Viking Age society. However, because most of ...

The finds hint at a nuanced picture of Viking society — one where most warriors were men but a person's class and profession had the biggest impact on who went to war. "Women can be as strong ...