Here’s how it works. Archaeologist Astrid Kviseth is the first person to lift this Viking sword in about 1,100 years. It was buried with a warrior who lived in what is now Trøndelag, Norway.

The Viking sword is now at a conservation laboratory, where it will be analyzed using an X-ray machine. The researchers are hoping to see what might be hidden behind the rust, such as ...

The sword gave power to the warrior, but the warrior's strength could also be transferred to the sword. That is how they were bound together: man and weapon, warrior and sword.

The sword, found in the village of Langeid in 2011 but has not go on display until now, dates from the late Viking age and is embellished with gold, inscriptions and other designs. It measures 37 ...

A mysterious female warrior discovered in Viking grave in Denmark was originally thought to be a Viking. But now, researchers have made a surprising discovery about this fierce warrior who died ...

Famous Viking warrior burial revealed to be that of a woman HE was tall. He was powerful. The Viking warrior was buried with sword, spear, shield and battle knives. There was one problem.

The 1,000-year-old fighter's grave (main) in Scotland's Swordle Bay was filled with warrior artefacts (inset), including a a broad axe and large sword, as well as a ringed pin.

A Viking warrior's roughly 1,000-year-old grave in remote Scotland is brimming with weapons, including a sword, ax and spear.

Bj 581 contains a stockpile of medieval weapons -- shield, knife, bow and arrow, spear, axe, and sword -- a strong suggestion the grave belonged to a great warrior.

“I thought, if I'm going to do a Viking movie, it's got to end with a naked sword fight on a volcano." And it definitely lives up to being, as Skarsgård puts it, "just the most epic thing I'd ...

Science Viking warrior in ancient grave turns out to be a woman Female Viking warriors aren't a myth. DNA tests show a high-ranking Viking found in a 10th-century grave was a woman.

No more. The warrior was, in fact, female. And not just any female, but a Viking warrior woman, a shieldmaiden, like an ancient Daenerys Targaryen, Queen of the Dragons from “Game of Thrones.” ...