Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers — and a harsh world where ...

A silver figurine from a 10th-century burial depicts a pregnant woman wearing a helmet, challenging traditional views.

The study also hinted at the grim reality of life for many newborn infants arriving into the world during the Viking Age.

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

Viking experts from the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester have examined pregnancy in the Viking Age and discovered ...

This tapestry also contains one of the only known depictions of a horned Viking helmet.

A team of researchers from the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester has conducted the first study on motherhood in the ...

But were any of these Viking Age women actually warriors?. | Credit: Grace Aldrich In Birka, Sweden, there is a roughly 1,000-year-old Viking burial teeming with lethal weapons — a sword ...

Viking experts from the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester have examined pregnancy in the Viking Age and discovered ...

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

Should we rethink the role of women in ancient societies? For more than 100 years, a high-ranking Viking warrior was assumed to be male. Dr Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson has been studying the ...