New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.

Warriors often chopped plunder into pieces ... “you must have thought your world was ending.” In the old Viking city of Gnezdovo in Russia, an inhabitant buried these beads and silver Islamic ...

Berserkr' is an Old Norse word meaning 'bear skin' and berserkers were Viking warriors who went into battle wearing wolf or bear skins. Berserkers believed that Odin, the god of war, gave them ...

Amleth (who embodies the traditional hypermasculine Viking warrior ideal that dominates ... prehistory pieced together through thousand-year-old archeological finds, isn't as hard of a science ...

Plus, we still use some of their Old Norse language today ... But not all the Vikings were bloodthirsty warriors. Some came to fight, but others came peacefully, to settle. They were farmers ...

Your browser does not support the video element. "Game of Thrones" actor Hafthor Bjornsson recently broke a 1,000 year-old Viking record for strength by carrying a 32 ...

One could be the significance of standing swords as a connection to the Norse warrior god Odin and his territory Valhalla, where slain warriors rested. Knewz.com noted that the swords were made of ...

it's almost easy to forget that there was one Viking-focused action film that was released in 1999: The 13th Warrior, starring Antonio Banderas and directed by John McTiernan. To be fair ...