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'If it was a man, we would say that's a warrior's grave': Weapon-filled burials are shaking up what we know about women's role in Viking societyNew research is finding that some women in Viking Age Scandinavia were buried with war-grade weapons. Experts are divided ...
A warrior’s skull from a grave in Gotland ... The pendant in question contests the theory that “proper” Vikings were invariably male. Price has detected some intriguing cross-gender signals.
Image caption, A re-enactment of Viking battle in York. King Alfred was prepared though, having fortified the towns and organised a large army drawn from his own warriors and the male population ...
Should we rethink the role of women in ancient societies? For more than 100 years, a high-ranking Viking warrior was assumed to be male. Dr Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson has been studying the ...
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