Some Viking women wielded great influence in the ... Some old Scandinavian poems, for example, explicitly described the practice of mourners burying dead warriors with their weapons.

These are some of the realities uncovered by the first interdisciplinary study to focus on pregnancy in the Viking age, authored by myself, Kate Olley, Brad Marshall and Emma Tollefsen as part of ...

Pregnancy has perhaps been particularly overlooked in periods we mostly associate with warriors, kings and battles—such as the highly romanticized Viking age (the period from AD 800 until AD 1050).