And the warrior was "definitely someone of means ... Wintervoll said, but a Viking grave containing a sword, spear, glass beads and a horse bridle were discovered on a nearby farm in the 1930s.

A man in Setesdal, Norway recently unearthed an 1,100-year-old Viking warrior’s grave while digging in his yard to build an ...

If a Viking Age sword was the only item recovered ... "I'm totally convinced by that," he said. "If that means she was a warrior, I'm not convinced there. But that would go for male graves as well." ...

"We think it is from the Viking period around 9th to 10th ... "It is easy to think, based on the sword and the lance, that a warrior was buried here," Wintervoll said. "Possibly someone used ...

It held the remains of a tall Viking warrior. Carefully arrayed alongside the body was a full suite of heavy weaponry. Two expensive horses had been sacrificed as part of the interment ritual.

Close up of the inscription "Ulfberht" on a Viking sword. These swords – made from ... often depicted as a mighty warrior who guarded the gates of Asgard and conjured the odd hellfire storm.

Hyvönen recognised right away that that the find was a Viking-era sword. A quick survey at the site also revealed ... In the autumn of 2013, a warrior's grave was found in Janakkala, perhaps unique ...

Although the fragmentary metal Viking helmets that have been discovered do not have horns, the portrayal of a warrior — possibly a berserker — wearing a horned helmet on the Oseberg textile leaves ...

The famous Viking warrior at Birka seemed to be a woman ... The other weaponry in the grave—shields, spears, double-edged sword, broadax, and battle-knife—suggested that the warrior woman ...

THE Viking ‘berserker’ warrior has long been considered a myth ... RELATED: Can you decode this sword’s mysterious message? A ‘normal’ sized battle axe was found with this man ...