Conflict and warfare were commonplace in Viking Age Northern Europe. The transformations associated with power struggles, state formation, and Christianisation had a profound influence upon all members of society and led to their continued factual and/or conceptual immersion in the sphere of war. This paper addresses the diverse ways in which warfare and military equipment permeated into the domain of women. In particular, using theories of object biography, agency, miniaturisation, and material citation, this work focusses on the processes of formal, functional, and symbolic transformations of indigenous and foreign objects associated with the sphere of war as well as their creative re-interpretation and implementation as elements of the Scandinavian female costume.