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The activity, which is aimed at schoolchildren aged 7 to 11 and played on a tablet, encourages pupils to engage with museum collections through characters such as Revna, the Viking of the Sea ...
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 ...
A skeleton found in a Viking graveyard in Solør ... despite her burial site being filled with an arsenal of weaponry that included arrows, a sword, a shield, a spear, and an axe. British scientists ...
Museum of the Viking Age, University of Oslo The Oseberg ... The other weaponry in the grave—shields, spears, double-edged sword, broadax, and battle-knife—suggested that the warrior woman ...
It appears that Lorange was mistaken about the number of Viking shields recovered from the tomb ... Lorange was the archaeologist from the museum, he was not the one who did the actual excavation ...
"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 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 ...
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 ...
Viking settlers appeared at the National Waterways Museum in Ellesmere Port on Sunday ... who were equipped with small shields and and light clubs. One by one the warriors fell. When the last warrior ...