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Archaeologists Prove That Vikings Rode ‘Stallions’ Rather Than Mares, Especially into The Afterlife

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Modern Icelandic horses are probably descendants from the horses that were buried by Viking.

More so than females, the male Norse explorers who took residence in Iceland more than 1,000 years were buried with their horses and new DNA evidence proves that the horses slaughtered to accompany their masters in the afterlife, were also mainly male.


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