Jan Bill, the curator of the Viking Ship Collection at the University of Oslo's Museum of Cultural History, who wasn't involved in the study but is conducting separate research on the shields ...

Her head rested on a shield, a bridled horse ... and well-worn weapons on display at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, Norway, until Nov. 22. "Viking Warrior Woman" first aired on Nov ...

Last year, the discovery of an ax head on a mountaintop overlooking Norway’s Trondheim Fjord led archaeologists to a tenth-century Viking grave. Though they found no remains, the team recovered ...

On a remote island in northern Norway, metal detectorists stumbled upon a pair of bronze treasures. The small artifacts ...

This illustrates the futility of passive shield use and suggests that they didn ... Larsen is the chief investigator at the Trelleborg Viking castle, part of the National Museum of Denmark. She and ...

Archaeologist Julia Wihlborg suggested that the sword and shield of the Hårby Valkyrie may represent a woman who had manly qualities or who became a man, raising the question of whether female ...

Saturday's activities at the Higgins Armory Museum include workshops on how to make your own Viking shield, the role of women in Norse society and Viking combat techniques. Through drills ...

“This is yet another shift away from the image of unsophisticated barbaric Vikings swinging their swords around,” said Mads Dengsø Jessen, a senior researcher with the National Museum in ...

In 1874, the Bergen Museum on Norway’s southwestern coast ... the archaeologist was less accurate. The number of Viking shields Lorange lists is wrong and he fails to mention the ship’s ...

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — An archaeology student unearthed seven “spectacular” Viking-era curled silver arm rings earlier this year north of Denmark's second-largest city, a Danish museum ...