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

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 ...

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 ...

"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." ...

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 ...

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.

The notion of a Viking warrior woman is not new. Mention is found in Nordic tradition. she was handy at fighting, wherever she aimed her blows. — The Greenlandic Poem of Atli “You can’t ...