The remarkably well-preserved burial of a high-status Viking woman contains an "unprecedented" discovery, challenging beliefs ...

Archaeologists excavating a ninth-century burial site in Bjugn, Norway have uncovered something unprecedented in Scandinavian archaeology: a Viking Age woman's grave featuring two scallop shells ...

A ninth-century grave discovered in Norway held the remains of a Viking Age woman whose mouth was covered with two large scallop shells.

Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for ...

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers — and a harsh world where not all newborns were born free or given burial. These are some of the ...

The great Norse warriors not only believed in the afterlife, but saw it as their duty to help the deceased get there, with ...

Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

Lastly, another important myth tells of Odin’s theft of the “mead of poetry”. This substance was created by two dwarves from ...