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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @06:36PM (1 child)
I think TMB insists on calling Kurenai "he" because it is actually TMBs infiltrator account where he can post his screed from a "SJW" puppet. Horribly unstable people.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 12 2017, @07:33PM
Oh no, Uzzard's a known trans-hater. I won't say -phobe because he's not scared; he's an asshole. It's been pointed out to him several times that gender-noncomforming people have existed in every society going as far back as we have records, that modern brain imaging techniques show there's something different at the physical level about them, but he's immune to evidence. You see, he has an ick, and he has ideas of How The World Should Work (TM) and if the world doesn't work that way, well then by Crom the world is *wrong.* So sayeth Uzzard.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...