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

Famously, the Viking period is usually marked by the raid on Lindisfarne, a small island off the northeastern ... Viking peoples also traded many other goods, including textiles woven by women, horses ...

Little is known about the Völva - which means “staff bearer” in Old Norse - but historians believe she was a kind of fortune-telling female shaman in Old Norse culture. Peter Pentz is the ...