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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: 4, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:46PM (8 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:46PM (#566831) Homepage Journal

    I know, right? Women... Almost enough to make you go straight.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 12 2017, @05:04PM (5 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday September 12 2017, @05:04PM (#566845) Journal

    Sorry but nothing could make me "go straight" any more than anything could make you "go gay." It doesn't work like that. There just isn't any attraction to men here; nothing personal, but you all just don't look or smell (pheremones) right to me. I'm not grossed out by the idea, just about as turned on by men as by furniture or buildings.

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    • (Score: 2) by jelizondo on Tuesday September 12 2017, @06:09PM (1 child)

      by jelizondo (653) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 12 2017, @06:09PM (#566887) Journal

      just about as turned on by men as by furniture or buildings

      you should try furniture... it rock... never mind

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @03:47PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @03:47PM (#567257)

        Also, be wary the way your GF eyes monoliths.

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday September 12 2017, @06:42PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday September 12 2017, @06:42PM (#566906)

      > just about as turned on by men as by furniture or buildings.

      Have you by any chance heard of Rule 34?

    • (Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday September 13 2017, @03:43PM (1 child)

      by Bot (3902) on Wednesday September 13 2017, @03:43PM (#567253) Journal

      > any more than anything could make you "go gay."

      I guess you forgot

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb [wikipedia.org]

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      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday September 14 2017, @05:01AM

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday September 14 2017, @05:01AM (#567646) Journal

        Shutupshutupshutupshutupshutup. That's a SECRET. Are you TRYING to undo all the hard work the Scissor Brigade has done over the last 20 years?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @06:43PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @06:43PM (#566908)

    Haha, TMB is a closet gay? Makes more sense why he's always using penis metaphors.

    • (Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday September 13 2017, @03:44PM

      by Bot (3902) on Wednesday September 13 2017, @03:44PM (#567254) Journal

      Hey you don't call my friend TMB "closet", ok?

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