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A recent study published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology reveals that Norwegian Viking society was significantly more violent than that of Denmark. This finding is based on a detailed ...

Nordic Vikings Owned Way Too Many Swords, Study Finds Compared with their Danish neighbors, the Nordic Vikings were exceedingly violent. The Walküren (Valkyrien), 1864, found in the Collection of ...

Upright swords, Köping, Sweden (Arkeologerna Statens historiska museer). While excavating a Viking cemetery near the Swedish town of Köping, archaeologists discovered a pair of sword hilts ...

Researchers studied Old Norse literature and archaeological evidence to shed new light on women's experiences of pregnancy during the Viking Age ...