Photographs by ROBERT CLARK-PHOTOGRAPHED AT GUSTAVIANUM, UPPSALA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM Viking warriors fought for riches and reputation with swords such as this, discovered at Gnezdovo, Russia.

Viking warriors have often been portrayed as horned helmet wearing, sword wielding warriors who went into battle with their long hair flowing down their backs - but is this really what they were like?

Paul Mortimer, who has created replicas of weapons found at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk - where an Anglo-Saxon burial ship was discovered - said it probably attached a sword scabbard to a warrior's belt ...

Birthe and Martin Biddle uncovered the body of a warrior in the churchyard at Repton. As well as sword, the body had been buried with a small Thor's hammer - the sign of the Viking god Thor ...