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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
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:48PM (2 children)
Directionality is irrelevant. Looting is looting. Punching up is not one iota more moral than punching down.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 12 2017, @05:01PM
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.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @06:32PM
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".