This is a chamber grave furnished with fine armor and sacrificed horses ... and a handful of others where women were buried with weapons, does not mean Vikings accepted women as warriors.

An incredible grave containing the skeleton of a Viking warrior, long thought to be male, has been confirmed as female ... an ax, 25 armor-piercing arrows, a fighting knife, two lances and ...

Some Viking women wielded great influence in the North ... The arrows, for example, were specially designed to pierce an enemy’s armor—these were not for show. The other weaponry in the ...

The masculine part of Scandinavian society dominated the studies of Viking Age historians and archaeologists until relatively recently. In classic overviews of this pivotal period, women were ...

The idea of a female Viking warrior is not new ... interest because "the grave goods included a sword, an axe, a spear, armour-piercing arrows, a battle knife, two shields, and two horses ...

The Vikings weren't just raiders, but farmers, traders and settlers - and they took their families with them when they moved from Scandinavia. Judith Jesch examines the role women played in the ...

The Vikings weren't just raiders, but farmers, traders and settlers - and they took their families with them when they moved from Scandinavia. Judith Jesch examines the role women played in the ...

This pendant, found in a tenth-century woman's burial in Aska, Sweden, is the only known convincing depiction of pregnancy from the Viking age. It depicts a figure in female dress with the arms ...

German archaeologists discovered that the skulls of three medieval Viking women found on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea showed evidence of an unusual procedure to elongate their ...