But debate over the Birka female Viking warrior grave only deepened an existing divide within the archeological community over Viking women's role in the social hierarchy. We don't yet have ...

Thanks to a 12th-century Danish historian, we have so many details about the Viking era to consume. Saxo Grammaticus was […] ...

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 female Viking warriors," she explains. "They were also carers, like me. So I chose the wings of the Valkyries on my coat of arms, combined with the symbol of the nurses in the British Navy.