New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.

They helped the leader of the gods choose the bravest fallen warriors to dwell in the afterlife of Valhalla. In Renaissance art, they are ... with the Norns, the female Norse goddesses that ...

But debate over the Birka female Viking warrior grave only deepened an existing divide within the archeological community over Viking women's role in the social hierarchy. We don't yet have ...