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

Then an armor-clad woman on horseback storms into ... to actual archeological evidence that leadership roles in the Viking Age were far more gender-fluid than previously thought.

Whenever I think of Vikings, which isn’t often, I must admit, I picture big, burly men with long beards and cool battle armor ... know a lot about Viking-age Denmark through their use of ...

Often "when we excavate bodies from the Viking age, we are lucky if there are just a few teeth," Lundø said to CNN. But in this case, the dampness of the region meant that for "long periods of ...

Under these conditions, the preservation of any Viking-Age structures is rare. “It’s crazy what they’ve found in such a small space when you think about it,” Irene told the News & Star.