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How Did Vikings View Pregnant Women? New Research Reveals That They Were Sometimes Depicted With WeaponsResearchers studied Old Norse literature and archaeological evidence to shed new light on women's experiences of pregnancy ...
Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers — and a harsh world where ...
A silver figurine from a 10th-century burial depicts a pregnant woman wearing a helmet, challenging traditional views.
sagas and legal texts provide words and stories about childbearing that the Vikings' immediate descendants used and circulated. We learned that pregnancy could be described as "bellyful", "unlight ...
Bibliotherapy helps externalize what has long been internalized. It allows readers to break cycles of silence and restore a ...
John Leach learned that his great-great grandfather served in the Civil War and was buried without a gravestone, so he did ...
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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 societyNew research is finding that some women in Viking Age Scandinavia were buried with war-grade weapons. Experts are divided about what that means.
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