Viking grave) at the National Museum of Iceland in May 2015 is about the grave of a Norse woman dated around 900 AD found during road building in northeastern Iceland. Her face rested on one of the turtle brooches, used to hold up an apron like garment or smokkr and the copper in the piece of jewelry helped preserve the organic matter in the grave. The woman was dressed in blue linen and probably came to Iceland as a child.
"Within this enclosure was the grave of a female, resting on her left side in a flexed position. Her knees and hips were bent and the left side of her face touched one the two oval brooches that would originally have been located on her breasts. Other grave goods included a trefoil brooch, 42 beads, textile fragments, two whetstones, bone fragments of either a comb or knife handle, a spindle whorl, and a stone of unusual shape which proved to be a fragment of chalcedony."
You can read more about the analysis and dating of this burial at the following link:
https://northernwomen.org/project-2/
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