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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Viking armies were organized into boat crews, usually a group of a few dozen men from the same village or town. These “shield brothers” spent most of their summers packed shoulder to shoulder ...

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"We haven't opened a Viking ... Of Skjold (shield) bulges were 26—of Swords 2—an axe and many arrows—in addition to many other Old Saws. The find is handed over to Bergens Museum." ...

In this handout photo released on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023, Senior Researcher at the National Museum of Denmark Mads Dengsø Jessen holds a window glass fragment from the Viking Age, in Copenhagen ...

The massive treasure-filled grave — likely belonging to a Viking king — was “only halfway excavated” before being filled in, the museum said ... Of Skjold (shield) bulges were 26 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 said on Monday, adding the ...