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

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) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:05PM (9 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:05PM (#566796) Homepage Journal

    You don't follow modern feminism then. Easter-egg-colored hair, drab clothing, and thick, ugly glasses is the de facto uniform for feminist activists in the US. Do your research then tell me I'm wrong.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:20PM (6 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:20PM (#566807) Journal

    Well, damn, I guess I'm not a modern feminist then with the all-black look and hair down to my knees. Meh, given how bankrupt the third wave has been for the last 10 years maybe this isn't a bad thing.

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    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:31PM (5 children)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:31PM (#566814) Homepage Journal

      You're likely one of the few percent that understand conformity != rebellion. You likely also know what equality actually means, which disqualifies you for the third wave. I've pointed it out to you before but it hasn't sunk in yet: extreme fringe cases aside, we agree on nearly every social issue. You're just fiscal looter is why you can't stand me.

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      • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:39PM (4 children)

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:39PM (#566826) Journal

        No, no we do not. Not even close. Don't try and drag me down to your level. And take your "fiscal looter" bullshit and shove it up your carrion-molesting ass so hard you choke on it; neoliberals are fiscal looters, the big banks are fiscal looters, in short, all the people transferring wealth upwards for the last 50 years or so are fiscal looters. Me, you give me a time machine, and I go after Reagan *before* I lay a finger on Adolf Hitler. Think about that one.

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        • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:48PM (2 children)

          by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:48PM (#566832) Homepage Journal

          Directionality is irrelevant. Looting is looting. Punching up is not one iota more moral than punching down.

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          • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 12 2017, @05:01PM

            by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday September 12 2017, @05:01PM (#566842) Journal

            Thanks for admitting you put profit and blind ideology above people. Not that I didn't know that about you before, but only someone completely devoid of humanity could possibly say something like that. You're suffering from the moral equivalent of a massive priority-inversion bug; get your scheduler rewritten.

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @06:32PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @06:32PM (#566896)

            I just love the days when I can tell TMB he's a fucked up mess that doesn't deserve to live in a free country. I guess that is why he has such a hard-on for wealth inequality and justifies it with meritocracy.

            He does not understand human society and lauds ideals that would turn this place into an even bigger shit hole than it already is. Shit birds laying shit eggs.

            I do hope he is just full of hot air and stupidity that doesn't actually get played out in real world situations. He probably does pay his taxes even though they are "theft".

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @07:16PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @07:16PM (#566924)

          Be sure to do that before he fucked up California in the 1960s.

          ...and don't leave out all the Reactionaries/Neoliberals[1] who lied their way into the Oval Office since the coronation of the union-buster-in-chief.

          Don't forget Lewis Powell before he wrote his infamous memo in 1971.

          ...and Roger Ailes when he was still a flunky for The Mike Douglas Show, before he started advising the Nixon campaign on how to be more effective Reactionaries/racists/troglodytes.

          ...and the Koch brothers.
          ...and Sheldon Adelson.
          ...and especially Robert Mercer--in particular, before he sired that vile daughter.

          [1] If you want to make a fulltime job of it, go after the same lot in Congress/statehouses.
          ...and don't forget the folks running Lamestream Media who provide the echo chamber for all the anti-worker, anti-consumer, pro-war crap.

          -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:33PM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:33PM (#566816) Journal

    You don't follow modern feminism then

    I don't follow many stupidities, modern feminism included indeed.

    Do your research then tell me I'm wrong.

    If this is an attempt to tell me you'd like to have confirmation you're right (in a geekish way, where right doesn't imply relevant), my apologies; while I'm inclined to follow many (other) stupid things, beat me if I have even the remote interest in this topic.

    Easter-egg-colored hair, drab clothing, and thick, ugly glasses is the de facto uniform for feminist activists in the US.

    For a moment I worried that photo might have been of someone I should know.
    My gratitude for showing me it's safe to continue ignoring it.

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