Female Viking warriors aren't a myth. DNA tests show a high-ranking Viking found in a 10th-century grave was a woman.

A warrior's grave. The late archaeologist Hjalmar Stolpe uncovered the burial in 1878 in Birka, a Viking settlement that flourished from about 750 to 950 in what is now east-central Sweden. The ...

So it looks like women were warriors. The question is, did women really make up a full half of the battle force? That we can’t say for sure (unless Doctor Who picks me up in his TARDIS and takes ...

An artist recreates what a Viking woman warrior from Birka may have looked like in battle. For 140 years, ... Indeed, she fought with her hair unbound and streaming down her back.

New evidence of Viking warrior women might not be what it seems Experts cast doubt on a recent DNA discovery in a mysterious Swedish grave. Annalee Newitz – Sep 14, 2017 3:47 pm | 97 ...

If you have kids, these viking braids are the perfect summer hairdo to give your little ones. Not only will it keep their hair out of the way and away from their faces (which is key for all summer ...

Still, she notes that the usual custom in Viking burials was cremation, which destroys all DNA, so other Viking warriors assumed to be men may have been women, too. The Hungarian woman "warrior ...

This High-Ranking Viking Warrior Was a Woman DNA analysis shows that the elaborate grave of what appears to be a Viking officer was a real-life shieldmaiden. Ben Panko. September 11, 2017.

DNA testing has confirmed that women were Viking warriors, not just men. Yet even with DNA evidence on the side of women wielding Viking swords, some experts still don't believe it.

National Geographic show Killer Viking Warrior Women has uncovered the possibility the centuries-old remains of the fearsome female fighters could be buried under Repton, Derbyshire ...

DNA rewrites history with proof that women were Viking warriors. by Colm Gorey. 11 Sep ... our image of the Vikings as a war-like people led by men with long hair and thick beards has remained the ...