War of the Vikings developer Fatshark has made good on its promise to bring female character to its hack-and-slash multiplayer title - and also on its promise to ensure said females aren't overly ...

It's a hell of a story: DNA analysis of a 10th century skeleton found at a burial in the Swedish town of Birka -- a huge trade hub -- revealed that a Viking military leader was actually a woman. SEE ...

An incredible grave containing the skeleton of a Viking warrior, long thought to be male, has been confirmed as female, researchers say. The 10th-century grave, known as Bj. 581, was first discovered ...

When an impressive Viking grave containing weapons, horses and even a board game was excavated in the 1880s, it was simply assumed that the skeleton belonged to a man. A new analysis of the DNA has ...

The Vikings were responsible for crafting some weapons that smiths still look back on with admiration today — but did that ingenuity extend to also building something capable of stopping those weapons ...