Pictures: Famous Viking Warrior Was a Woman

Concealed in iron helmets, chain mail, and leather cuirasses, Viking re-enactors make a formidable impression, revealing how these ancient raiders stirred such terror in their victims.

Concealed in iron helmets, chain mail, and leather cuirasses, Viking reenactors make a formidable impression, revealing how these ancient raiders stirred such terror in their victims.

Concealed in iron helmets, chain mail, and leather cuirasses, Viking re-enactors make a formidable impression, revealing how these ancient raiders stirred such terror in their victims.

Concealed in iron helmets, chain mail, and leather cuirasses, Viking re-enactors make a formidable impression, revealing how these ancient raiders stirred such terror in their victims.

Concealed in iron helmets, chain mail, and leather cuirasses, Viking re-enactors make a formidable impression, revealing how these ancient raiders stirred such terror in their victims.

Concealed in iron helmets, chain mail, and leather cuirasses, Viking reenactors make a formidable impression, revealing how these an- cient raiders stirred such terror in their victims.

The new alphabet, once adopted, would have made trade easier to facilitate in those European regions under Viking control.

Concealed in iron helmets, chain mail, and leather cuirasses, Viking re-enactors make a formidable impression, revealing how these ancient raiders stirred such terror in their victims.