But that's not the whole story: “There were some rules in Viking society providing women with a little bit more privileged world than their sisters in the rest of Europe. For instance ...

Should we rethink the role of women in ancient societies? For more than 100 years, a high-ranking Viking warrior was assumed to be male. Dr Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson has been studying the ...

Just outside the modern city of Lincoln ... Kjellström discovered that the man was in fact a woman. This nameless Viking woman seems to have commanded the respect of many Viking warriors.

As well as being forward thinking in their approach to hygiene and grooming the Vikings were also progressive in their treatment of women. Viking females, unlike most other Medieval women ...