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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

raising the question of whether female warriors were actually regarded as men in Viking Age society. However, because most of ...

When Vikings ... warriors who went into battle wearing wolf or bear skins. Berserkers believed that Odin, the god of war, gave them superhuman powers and that they didn't need to wear battle ...

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 ...

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 ...