This is a chamber grave furnished with fine armor and sacrificed ... of mead to slain (male) warriors. Though fascinating, this grave doesn't really change our picture of the Viking world very ...

Christer Åhlin, Swedish History Museum/Antiquity Publications Ltd An incredible grave containing the skeleton of a Viking warrior, long thought to be male ... 25 armor-piercing arrows, a fighting ...

Whenever I think of Vikings, which isn’t often, I must admit, I picture big, burly men with long beards and cool battle armor ...

The remains of a powerful Viking — long thought to be a man ... equipment buried along with her — a sword, an ax, a spear, armor-piercing arrows, a battle knife, shields, and two horses ...

The Birka Warrior’s male identity stuck. Birka and the entire Viking world are arguably getting ... were specially designed to pierce an enemy’s armor—these were not for show.

More than a thousand years ago, a Viking woman was laid to rest with the full honors of a mighty warrior, including weapons, armor and two ... a female rather than a male skeleton.