Like the shield-maiden of Solør, this woman was buried ... Norway, until Nov. 22. "Viking Warrior Woman" first aired on Nov. 3 on the National Geographic channel.

raising the question of whether female warriors were actually regarded as men in Viking Age society. However, because most of the armed female figurines have been discovered as isolated finds ...

Viking mythology and lore are filled ... Norway has several of what have been nicknamed "shield-maiden" burials, after the women warriors of Scandinavian folklore. One is the Nordre Kjølen ...

Mind you, I’m no indomitable Viking warrior – and am perhaps more akin ... But what does that mean, exactly, for a shield maiden? What pre-Valhalla vicissitudes could possibly trouble one ...

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 ...

It held the remains of a tall Viking warrior. Carefully arrayed alongside the body was a full suite of heavy weaponry. Two expensive horses had been sacrificed as part of the interment ritual.

My first introduction to the world of warrior women was through ... this braid screams Shield Maiden realness. This braid takes the traditional viking inspiration and makes it a little softer ...

An artist recreates what a Viking woman warrior from Birka may have looked like in battle. For 140 years, archaeologists concluded a grave in the small town was for male warrior, but new evidence ...

What it tells us about the past: This cast silver figurine of a Valkyrie — a mythological maiden who assists Odin ... raising the question of whether female warriors were actually regarded as men in ...