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

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers — and a harsh world where ...

Archaeological excavations of Viking graves and battlefields show they used the same chain mail shirts, long spears, and sharp, double-edged swords as other well equipped warriors all across Europe.

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets ... kings and battles – such as the highly romanticised Viking age (the period from AD800 until AD1050). Topics such as pregnancy ...

Viking Age swords were expensive objects ... ground-stuck swords (and in some cases, spears and arrowheads) may have been thought to facilitate the transition to Valhalla, the archaeologists ...

A METAL detectorist has accidentally discovered a 1000-year-old Viking sword fragment with unique animal carvings. The incredible discovery was made by a treasure hunter Sander Visser while ...

These wounds were likely caused by a sharp-edged weapon—like a knife or sword—and possibly also by something that could pierce deeply, such as a spear. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

While excavating a Viking cemetery near the Swedish town of Köping, archaeologists discovered a pair of sword hilts protruding curiously from the earth. After further investigation, they ...

Credit: Grace Aldrich In Birka, Sweden, there is a roughly 1,000-year-old Viking burial teeming with lethal weapons — a sword, an ax-head, spears, knives, shields and a quiver of arrows — as ...