A 1,200-year-old gold Viking Age woman sporting a sword, shield and ponytail While it's unclear if the skull modifications were disguised by a distinctive hairstyle, "I assume that the foreign (or ...

Archaeologist Julia Wihlborg suggested that the sword and shield of the Hårby Valkyrie may represent a woman who had manly qualities or who became a man, raising the question of whether female ...

Some had skulls crushed by blunt force ... "And you could kind of say that the Viking sword is the handgun of the Viking age, because you couldn't really use it for anything else than killing ...

Toplak and Lukas Kerk examine two significant forms of body modification from the Viking Age: filed teeth and artificially modified skulls. These modifications were not just cosmetic; they served ...

The sword was found in three pieces by two metal detector enthusiasts, independent of each other, in the Jåttå/Gausel area in Stavanger, already renowned for the grave of the so-called Gausel queen.