New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...

But while many associate the Viking Age with all-conquering male warriors, curators say it was ... believe she was a kind of fortune-telling female shaman in Old Norse culture.

One famous early Irish text records how a woman known as Inghen Ruaidh—or ... woman seems to have commanded the respect of many Viking warriors. “On her lap she had gaming pieces,” says ...