Scandinavia, Bjorn Ironside rose through blood and battle to claim his place as a king. His name still echoes in Viking ...

The tale of the Viking woman warrior from Birka continues to capture our imaginations. She has even been called a "real-life Viking version" of Game of Thrones ' iconic female knight, Brienne of ...

That Viking, who lived and died around the year 900, was first excavated from a farm in Solør, Norway, in 1900. Her head rested on a shield, a bridled horse skeleton lay curled at her feet, and ...

Þórhallur Þráinsson ©Neil Price More than a thousand years ago, a Viking woman was laid to rest with the full honors of a mighty warrior, including weapons, armor and two horses.

One chamber contained a skeleton, along with an axe, a spear, a battle knife, shields and arrows, a tasseled hat and the remains of two horses. It was clearly the grave of a great Viking warrior ...