He and Skarsgård break down key aspects of “The Northman” that marry real Viking ... a tapestry from a Viking burial found in Norway,” he says, and the clothes and armor of the ancestors ...

Others stuck with the Viking theory, while some said the corpse was that of a Native American who had gotten his armor from Europeans. No one knows. No one knew in 1831.

Then an armor-clad woman on horseback storms into ... Most likely, though, it's just the same lack of imagination that turned real Viking women into a myth. Jess is an LA-based culture critic ...

Leif Erikson was a real explorer and the ... as "warrior who fights without armor." Harald is known to be a great, mighty ...

More from How Real Is It? Historian William Short watches ... Valhalla." He describes what Viking armor looked like in "Outlander," starring Jim Caviezel, Ron Perlman, and John Hurt.