Viking longship: Did you mean...?

Silver bossed penannular brooch, found in Waterford, England. 9th-10th Century CE. Hoop with trapezoidal terminals, animal heads at join between hoop and terminal. Diameter: 10.5 cm (4.1 in). (Courtesy of the British Museum)

Sketch made by Hjalmar Stolpe, published in 1889, of the Viking Age grave found at Birka, Sweden, labelled 'Bj 581'. Buried with weapons and horses (things normally associated with warriors), this particular grave has been subject of much...

Three Viking Age swords dated to between c. 750-950 CE are shown here. They were found in the river Meuse near Den Bosch, Aalburg and Wessem, in the Netherlands. They now belong to the collections of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden...

Reenactors bring childhood in the Viking Age to life, 2012. Archeon, Alphen aan den Rijn.

Viking burial finds consisting of different weapons and a female skeleton. Possibly a female warrior from the latter half of the 10th century CE. Exhibited at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, Norway.

Viking Whalebone Plaque, in the shape of two dragons facing each other with details added on one side of the plaque. It is also decorated with dotted circles and geometric designs. Found in a boat burial. The function of these whalebone plaques...

Golden Viking brooch originally from the Carolingian Empire, 9th century CE. Exhibited at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, Norway.

Cover of The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women by Nancy Marie Brown.

Plaque from a late 9th- or early 10th-century burial at Scar, Sanday in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. Orkney Museum. The plaque, carved from one piece of whalebone into the shape of two dragons facing each other, was found in a Viking burial...

Keys were a powerful symbol of control over the household goods in Viking Scandinavia. The lady of the house, known as the "husfreyja," or "goddess of the house," would always wear the keys on her belt, even taking them with her to the grave...