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 main items for a Viking would be a helmet, a shield, a knife, and then a spear or an axe. Using a round shield provides a big protective advantage that makes armour less important when ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Her work has shown that the Vikings never would have expanded their known world without the women's work of weaving. If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning ...