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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 society

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 well as riding equipment and ...
Reuters

Could some Viking warriors have been trans men, book asks?

LONDON, Aug 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Vikings were known for brutality and chauvinism as they pillaged their way across Europe, but a new book has claimed that some of the Nordic warriors ...
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How Viking “Wolf Men” Became the Most Feared Warriors in History

Long before Viking raids became legend, there were warriors who fought like no others — the Ulfheðnar, the wolf-warriors of Norse mythology. Covered in wolf pelts and consumed by fury, they entered ...
WSB-TV

Vikings: Warriors of the Sea brings swords, comb made of bones, Viking life to Fernbank

ATLANTA — What do you know about Vikings? Did they wear horned helmets, carry large swords, and raid and pillage everything in their path on their journeys across the high seas? That’s part of their ...
PBS

Infographic: 6 Weapons Found in This Viking’s Grave

In 1878, archaeologist Hjalmar Stolpe uncovered a grave containing a large number of weapons and the skeletal remains of what seemed to be a great Viking warrior. For a century, people assumed the ...