Ten-foot spears, three-foot shields, and a thousand raving warriors - Viking combat was brutal, bloody, and often deadly.

Now, a new article in the journal Antiquity - by the same authors as the initial 2017 study - addresses some of these criticisms and confirms their earlier findings. This was a Viking warrior woman.

A high-status Viking warrior who was thought to be a man turns out to be a woman, a new DNA analysis finds. The remains of the warrior were buried with an array of warlike accessories, including ...

A mysterious female warrior discovered in Viking grave in Denmark was originally thought to be a Viking. But now, researchers have made a surprising discovery about this fierce warrior who died ...

Here’s how it works. Archaeologist Astrid Kviseth is the first person to lift this Viking sword in about 1,100 years. It was buried with a warrior who lived in what is now Trøndelag, Norway.

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.

“The emotional lure of the woman warrior, especially in the Viking Age, is too strong for reasoned argument,” she wrote in a blog post Sept. 9.

Swedish Viking Age Researchers from Stockholm University and Uppsala University uncovered new DNA evidence proving that female Viking warriors existed. The testing identified some of the remains ...

Yara Greyjoy isn’t the only bad woman warrior sailing the seas. A Swedish grave from the 10th century A.D. that contained the remains of a powerful Viking warrior, horses and weapons was beli… ...

Viking Warrior Queen Season 18 Episode 4 | 55m 21sVideo has Closed Captions| CC Join archaeologists examining the history-changing DNA of a female Viking warrior.

"When the Birka burial was discovered, this was seen as the example of a Viking warrior. And then when it turned out to be female, everyone went, 'Ah, that's surprising,'" Al-Shamahi told Newsweek.