This was the most ornate burial for a high-ranking woman, as detailed by Arkeonews. Inside the grave, archaeologists discovered jewelry and oval-shaped brooches typical of Viking women's attire ...
These graves weren’t typical modern burials, however. One woman, for example, was interred in a natural rock crevice overlaid with stones—common Viking regional practice at the time.
But that's not the whole story: “There were some rules in Viking society providing women with a little bit more privileged world than their sisters in the rest of Europe. For instance ...
Søren Diinhoff / University Museum of Bergen Archaeologists have unearthed coins, jewelry and stones from graves in Norway that likely belonged to high-status Viking women, reports Science ...