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DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman

posted by martyb on Tuesday September 12 2017, @11:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the Valkyries,-Amazons,...Xena? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

DNA proves fearsome Viking warrior was a woman:

A 10th century Viking unearthed in the 1880s was like a figure from Richard Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries: an elite warrior buried with a sword, an ax, a spear, arrows, a knife, two shields, and a pair of warhorses. [...] a new study published today in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology finds that the warrior was a woman—the first high-status female Viking warrior to be identified. Excavators first uncovered the battle-ready body among several thousand Viking graves near the Swedish town of Birka, but for 130 years, most assumed it was a man—known only by the grave identifier, Bj 581. [...] Now, the warrior's DNA proves her sex, suggesting a surprising degree of gender balance in the Vikings' violent social order.

Her name was Lagertha.

Reference: Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, et. al., A female Viking warrior confirmed by genomics, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23308

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 12 2017, @01:31PM (2 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday September 12 2017, @01:31PM (#566716) Homepage Journal

    Yup. I see the SJW types are out early this morning too. Must have been a sale on Venezuelan, organic, cruelty-free mocha-lattes down at Starbucks this morning. Here, have a preemptive upmod to counter some of the inevitable rage-mods.

    Mods: Now that was a Troll post. GP was just cold, hard reality even if it does hurt your pussies.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Tuesday September 12 2017, @01:48PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 12 2017, @01:48PM (#566722) Journal

    Mods: Now that was a Troll post.

    This was +Informative,
    But then... you can bring a mod to water but you can't make it drink

    (grin)

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  • (Score: 2, Offtopic) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday September 12 2017, @02:37PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday September 12 2017, @02:37PM (#566748) Journal

    Must have been a sale on Venezuelan, organic, cruelty-free soy mocha-lattes down at Starbucks this morning.

    FTFY.