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

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

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

What it tells us about the past: This cast silver figurine of a Valkyrie — a mythological maiden who assists Odin, the Norse ...

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 ...

But were any of these Viking Age women actually warriors?. | Credit ... Likewise, while jewelry was more pronounced in female graves, 40% of male graves also had them, "hardly a negligible ...

These assistants to the Norse god of war then accompanied the dead warriors to ... and discarded jewelry. Experts think the area may have been a noble's farm in the Viking Age, complete with ...