Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers — and a harsh world where not all newborns were born free or given burial. These are some of the ...

IN days of yore, Vikings were fearsome warriors with horns jutting from their helmets. We know this because we've seen it in the movies, on the opera stage or in Hagär the Horrible comic strips. Yet ...

We all recognize ancient Vikings from their distinctive helmets featuring horns – or at least that’s what imagery from popular culture has led us to believe. The reality is far more practical: It is ...

Its inclusion in 19th stories about Vikings and in some modern television shows, however, has cemented the idea. It is ...