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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 ...

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