Two ancient Viking swords were discovered in a stone burial chamber in central Sweden during a highway excavation. The excavation was made in Viby/Norrtuna, in the province of Västmanland ...

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New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.

Sword and buckles, nails and wire embroidery all suggested these had been Viking cremations ... than a grizzly legend after all. The skin, ancient though it was, had once belonged to a cow.