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

A stunning 1,200-year-old gold and silver figurine depicting a Viking woman armed with a sword and shield has been discovered ...

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

Viking warriors have often been portrayed as horned helmet wearing, sword wielding warriors who ... have found would seem to suggest that the real Vikings were very different to those that we ...

Her left arm is protected by a shield, while her right hand clutches a short double-edged sword ... of whether female warriors were actually regarded as men in Viking Age society.