Finding any human remains from the Viking Age (A.D. 793 to 1066) is rare, in part because Scandinavian soils are ... One ...

Scandinavian traders were already plying ... Kjellström discovered that the man was in fact a woman. This nameless Viking woman seems to have commanded the respect of many Viking warriors.

At least three of them appear to belong to a trio of highly respected and wealthy Viking women. But don’t expect archeologists to find their bones—or any other human remains—in the estimated ...