A magnet fisherman was shocked to learn a rusty sword he had pulled from an Oxfordshire river was a 1,200-year-old Viking weapon. Trevor Penny was using a powerful magnet to look for metal objects ...

This sword was buried with a female leader ... “you must have thought your world was ending.” In the old Viking city of Gnezdovo in Russia, an inhabitant buried these beads and silver Islamic ...

Three high-status women, though perhaps not Scandinavians themselves, were, or perhaps were not, interred there.