Archaeologists excavating a ninth-century burial site in Bjugn, Norway have uncovered something unprecedented in Scandinavian archaeology: a Viking Age woman's grave featuring two scallop shells ...

A ninth-century grave discovered in Norway held the remains of a Viking Age woman whose mouth was covered with two large scallop shells.

A Viking woman found in Norway with scallop shells over her mouth leaves experts puzzled about the meaning behind this burial ...

Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

Roy Søreng, a local metal detectorist, found a Viking Age brooch in Norwegian soil. When he called archaeologists to the site ...

Scallop shells were found in situ around the Viking woman's mouth. TRØNDELAG COUNTY, NORWAY—The grave of a Viking Age woman has been unearthed on private land in central Norway ...

A well-preserved Viking Age grave featuring a previously unknown funerary ritual in Norway has been excavated in the locality ...

“The preservation, the jewellery, the symbolism, it’s extraordinary on multiple levels,” Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) archaeologist Raymond Sauvage says of the discovery of a ...

Archaeologists in Norway found a 1,200-year-old Viking woman's grave with mysterious scallop shells over her mouth. Discover ...

It was a place where Kings, Picts and Vikings mingled and the powerful wished to be seen, both in life and in death. Govan on ...

The Anglo-Saxon Church to negotiate a way forward in a context which, at one time, would have seemed disastrous.

"Perhaps a billion silver dirhams flowed into Scandinavia and the Viking world between 800 and 950," says Gullbekk. That ...