Most likely, though, it's just the same lack of imagination that turned real Viking women into a myth. Jess is an LA-based culture critic who covers intimacy in the digital age, from sex and ...

Quite a few stones that look like penises, so-called phallic stones, have been found. Now archaeologists believe they have ...

Archaeologists uncovered a wealth of Viking Age artifacts at Skumsnes farm in Fitjar, on Norway's west coast, shedding new light on the roles of women in Viking society. The excavations revealed ...

But that's not the whole story: “There were some rules in Viking society providing women with a little bit more privileged world than their sisters in the rest of Europe. For instance ...

Should we rethink the role of women in ancient societies? For more than 100 years, a high-ranking Viking warrior was assumed to be male. Dr Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson has been studying the ...

The 35-year-old, a former Royal Navy nurse now working as a home carer, is the first woman to take on the role of Viking chieftain – a position until now reserved for men. "I took a week to ...

The people of Shetland, a group of islands north of Scotland, are welcoming the arrival of spring in dramatic style – by burning viking longships. Up Helly Aa was first celebrated in 1881 and is ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield. In the vast urban sprawl of Arizona, the habitat of ...