New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.
"Very little is known of the actual extent of Viking Age painting. Black, red, yellow, and brown comprise the majority of colors employed in extant Viking painted artifacts. Most known Viking painting was executed on carved woodwork; the Gokstad ship tiller and the Oseberg sledges are some st...
Among the proponents of the latter, Price suggests that the patterns of maritime raiding that define the “Viking phenomenon” may be found earlier than commonly thought and outside the North Sea; he argues that such finds as the Salme ship burials (Fig.2) from c. 750 imply “that the o...