"Though some Viking women buried with weapons are known, a female warrior of this importance has never been determined and Viking scholars have been reluctant to acknowledge the agency of women with ...

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Researchers studied Old Norse literature and archaeological evidence to shed new light on women's experiences of pregnancy ...

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing ... This pendant, found in a tenth-century woman's burial in Aska, Sweden, is the only known convincing depiction of pregnancy from the Viking age. It ...

Pregnant women wielding swords ... This pendant, found in a tenth-century woman's burial in Aska, Sweden, is the only known convincing depiction of pregnancy from the Viking age.

Recent research sheds new light on the role of pregnant women in Viking society ... in the study is a small Viking Age silver figurine found in a 10th-century Swedish burial.

Pregnant women wielding swords ... This pendant, found in a tenth-century woman's burial in Aska, Sweden, is the only known convincing depiction of pregnancy from the Viking age.

A team of researchers from the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester has conducted the first study on motherhood in the Viking Age, discovering that pregnant women were depicted ... a unique ...

Pregnant women wielding swords ... This pendant, found in a tenth-century woman’s burial in Aska, Sweden, is the only known convincing depiction of pregnancy from the Viking age.