In addition, women made all the high-quality woolen clothing worn by the crew of such a warship, and Danish textile expert Lise Bender Jørgensen has calculated that as much as 17.5 years of labor ...

Researchers studied Old Norse literature and archaeological evidence to shed new light on women's experiences of pregnancy during the Viking Age ...

Recent research sheds new light on the role of pregnant women in Viking society, revealing a complex interplay between motherhood and warrior culture. The study titled "Womb Politics: The Pregnant ...

In the 1990s, as a Ph.D. student at the University of Glasgow, she'd devoted herself to studying Viking women's dress and ornament, typically from artifacts found in burial sites.

Consequently, we suggest that pregnant women who died weren't routinely buried with their unborn child and may not have been commemorated as one, symbiotic unity by Viking societies.

Consequently, we suggest that pregnant women who died weren’t routinely buried with their unborn child and may not have been commemorated as one, symbiotic unity by Viking societies.

Viking women’s gravesites unearthed to find jewelry, coins, and a ‘vulva stone ... Farms that made fine clothing held high status,” Diinhoff explained, ...

Consequently, we suggest that pregnant women who died weren’t routinely buried with their unborn child and may not have been commemorated as one, symbiotic unity by Viking societies.

One of the women’s graves featured stones carefully arranged in the shape of a long Viking boat, likely as a ritual to aid her journey to the afterlife, they added.