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

They helped the leader of the gods choose the bravest fallen warriors to dwell in the afterlife of Valhalla. In Renaissance art ... dead. The only description of the Valkyries from the Viking ...

One could be the significance of standing swords as a connection to the Norse warrior god ... grounds of the Viking age were considered to be places for the living and the dead, according to ...