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

This autumn, they excavated three of those graves. They determined that they had belonged to wealthy Viking women, and they were filled with a small bounty of treasures indicating their high ...

One of the women’s graves featured stones carefully arranged in the shape of a long Viking boat, likely as a ritual to aid her journey to the afterlife, they added. Researchers also uncovered ...

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

On the Swedish island of Gotland, where archaeologists have found many intact graves from ... in some parts of the Viking world. One famous early Irish text records how a woman known as Inghen ...

It goes back to our Viking women. While the men were out there raping and pillaging, the women were running the show at home.” ...