Viking Women: The Real Valkyries

S1 E1: A thousand years ago, Birka in Central Sweden was the world’s largest and most important Viking trading town. Today, it’s the location of a remarkable archaeological discovery challenging centuries of presumptions about the role of women in the Viking Age. Visit the small island where the bones of a 10th century war chief have been identified as female, and see what life may have been like for a Viking warrior woman.