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Viking-Age woman buried with scallop shells over her mouth is found

Archaeologists in coastal Norway have uncovered a Viking-Age grave that is forcing specialists to rethink what they know ...
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Viking woman from over 1,100 years ago found buried with her dog and boat

One such burial was found when amateur metal detectorists came across partially exposed bronze brooches in the dirt in Norway’s remote Senja Island in 2023. A little digging revealed rib bones ...
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Viking Age women may have wielded weapons when pregnant, sagas and ancient artifacts hint

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers — and a harsh world where not all newborns were born free or given burial. These are some of the ...
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Viking women’s gravesites unearthed to find jewelry, coins, and a ‘vulva stone’

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Remains of a 9th-Century Viking Woman Found Buried with Scallop Shells in Her Mouth, an Unknown and Puzzling Ritual

The woman lived in Bjugn during the Viking Age. She presents a mystery that archaeologists have not yet solved. Credit: Raymond Sauvage, NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet The chain of events that led to this ...
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I'm tired of the Viking pop culture trend erasing warrior women

There's a background character in The Northman you probably blinked and missed. But her appearance, however brief, electrified me more than any other thrill in director Robert Eggers' bombastic new ...
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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 ...
Scientific American

Viking Textiles Show Women Had Tremendous Power

Archaeology has a representation problem. For most of the time that scholars have been probing the human past, they have focused mainly on the activities of men to the exclusion of women. There are a ...
BBC

Viking Women (Radio Edit)

Greg Jenner is joined in medieval Scandinavia by historian Dr Eleanor Barraclough and comedian Chloe Petts to learn about the fascinating women of the Viking age. Show more Greg Jenner is joined in ...