Archaeologists in coastal Norway have uncovered a Viking-Age grave that is forcing specialists to rethink what they know about death, ritual, and identity in the early medieval north. At the center of ...

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This round, silver pendant was found in a 10th-century elite woman's burial in Sweden in 1920 and is the only known depiction of a pregnant Viking. The artifact, known as the Ash Pendant, is in the ...