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

Vikings did not wear much armour. Some chieftains had iron helmets ... Norse word meaning 'bear skin' and berserkers were Viking warriors who went into battle wearing wolf or bear skins.

Vikings did not wear much armour. Some chieftains wore mail ... having fortified the towns and organised a large army drawn from his own warriors and the male population called up to do ...

Then an armor-clad woman on horseback storms into ... Sign up for Mashable's Top Stories newsletter Why is all this Viking warrior woman badassery still kept so squarely in the background of ...

it's almost easy to forget that there was one Viking-focused action film that was released in 1999: The 13th Warrior, starring Antonio Banderas and directed by John McTiernan. To be fair ...