The artifacts entombed with the 1,000-year-old bones ... feature women warriors such as Hervor and Brynhildr. And neither meek nor mild, Viking women were depicted in medieval art and literature ...

Stories and poems from the Medieval era contain accounts of fearsome female Viking warriors, yet historians ... suggests there’s some truth to these old tales—and that women stood alongside ...

And not just any female, but a Viking warrior woman, a shieldmaiden, like an ancient Daenerys Targaryen, Queen of the Dragons from Game of Thrones. The artifacts entombed with the 1000-year-old ...