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 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 ...

And not just any female, but a Viking warrior woman ... a sword, an ax, a spear, armor-piercing arrows and a battle knife – not to mention the remnants of two horses. Such weapons of war ...

More than a thousand years ago, a Viking woman was laid to rest with the full honors of a mighty warrior, including weapons, armor and two ... "Though some Viking women buried with weapons are ...

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 ...

At least three of them appear to belong to a trio of highly respected and wealthy Viking women. But don’t expect archeologists to find their bones—or any other human remains—in the estimated ...

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. Archaeology breakthrough ...

Recent research sheds new light on the role of pregnant women in Viking society, revealing a complex interplay between motherhood and warrior culture. The study titled "Womb Politics: The Pregnant ...

And not just any female, but a Viking warrior woman ... a sword, an ax, a spear, armor-piercing arrows and a battle knife - not to mention the remnants of two horses. Such weapons of war among ...