Viking experts from the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester have examined pregnancy in the Viking Age and discovered that pregnant women were depicted in art and literature with martial gear, and newborns were born into a harsh world where they were not all given burial or were born free.
First study of its kind sheds light on pregnancy in the Viking Age
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