There's a background character in The Northman you probably blinked and missed. But her appearance, however brief, electrified me more than any other thrill in director Robert Eggers' bombastic ...

Thanks to a 12th-century Danish historian, we have so many details about the Viking era to consume. Saxo Grammaticus was […] ...

Should we rethink the role of women in ancient societies? For more than 100 years, a high-ranking Viking warrior was assumed to be male. Dr Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson has been studying the ...

But it's a tradition that is evolving, with a woman at the heart of it for the ... across the figure of the Valkyries, the female Viking warriors," she explains. "They were also carers, like ...

Life for a Viking warrior was usually brutal and short ... chieftain's burial in 9th century Russia describes animals and even a slave woman being killed and placed alongside his body before ...