Ship in the Hill — William Sullivan

This historical novel is based on the true story of the excavation of a Viking burial ship from a hill in Norway in 1904. The find dumbfounded archeologists because it was the most elaborate Viking grave ever discovered, yet the bones in the grave belonged to a woman. Historians had assumed that the Viking world -- and certainly Viking ships -- were ruled by men. Who was this woman? The Ship in the Hill alternates chapters between the archeologists unearthing the ship and the Viking queen who sailed it a thousand years before.