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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
New research is finding that some women in Viking Age Scandinavia were buried with war-grade weapons. Experts are divided ...
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Researchers confirm Viking warrior found in grave was actually a woman
581. Christer Åhlin, Swedish History Museum/Antiquity Publications Ltd An incredible grave containing the skeleton of a Viking warrior, long thought to be male, has been confirmed as female ...
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I'm tired of the Viking pop culture trend erasing warrior women
Amleth (who embodies the traditional hypermasculine Viking warrior ideal that dominates today's modern reimaginings of this ancient history) is partaking in the spoils of a violent raid on an ...
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Woman From Ancient Burial May Have Been a Viking Warrior, Brutal Head Injury Suggests
Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ...