The Viking age is welcoming a new kind of hero: women

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

Story in National Geographic 2025

Images from Moesgaard and Sletten Viking re-enactments, Oseberg archive in Oslo, Norway and the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm. 

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