They determined that they had belonged to wealthy Viking women, and they were filled with a small bounty of treasures indicating their high social status. According to Science Norway, the burial ...

Three Viking graves excavated in Norway contain coins from distant lands and an oddly symbolic stone carved to look like female genitalia. The graves, all of which seemed to belong to women ...

This nameless Viking woman seems to have commanded the respect ... and traded and fought with the indigenous people. In 1960 a famous Norwegian explorer, Helge Ingstad, went looking for these ...