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

Amleth (who embodies the traditional hypermasculine Viking ... Sign up for Mashable's Top Stories newsletter Why is all this Viking warrior woman badassery still kept so squarely in the background ...

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 ...