A Norwegian man named Jan Erik Aasvik was recently searching for his mother's lost earring in the family garden when his ...

But a young Norwegian woman, Mari Ingelin Heskestad ... confirmed in a statement that the ring dated to the late Iron Age or Viking Age. She noted that the find was extremely rare; it also ...

This would help explain why the women buried there possessed valuable costume jewelry ... stones—common Viking regional practice at the time. Another, higher ranking woman’s grave featured ...

She is a living archaeologist – a contemporary Viking woman. And so I had some questions about very ... but one of the most striking – and one of my personal favourites – is Björk’s costume as the ...

"Viking women were really strong," says costume designer Joan Bergin ... Thanks to the Vikings, in Celtic lands a woman could divorce a man by turning around three times in a circle." ...

We have a character — Lagertha — who embodies this and no one can believe that in the Dark Ages you could have such an empowered woman ... Viking designs, symbols and adornment, her costume ...

THE SUN IS MY UNDOING—Marguerite Steen—Viking ($3). In the endless stream of endless picaresque costume novels that ... but she is also a woman of spirit and of adequate sex appeal.

You may like Hårby Valkyrie: A 1,200-year-old gold Viking Age woman sporting a sword ... "It's truly amazing artistic work." For Tora's costume, Marianne Vedeler, a textile professor in the ...