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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 Grishnakh on Wednesday September 13 2017, @04:12PM (3 children)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Wednesday September 13 2017, @04:12PM (#567264)

    If your god can't figure out there's a gigantic difference between a bird and a mammal, then it isn't exactly omniscient, is it?

    And if your god can't figure out basic mathematics, and would have me committing massive errors in calculation whenever I tried to do geometry, then why should I follow it? Even the ancient Greeks could figure out Pi, as well as the Chinese and Egyptians, to several decimal places.

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  • (Score: 2) by marcello_dl on Thursday September 28 2017, @02:28PM (2 children)

    by marcello_dl (2685) on Thursday September 28 2017, @02:28PM (#574353)

    > If your god can't figure out there's a gigantic difference between a bird and a mammal

    Oh ok. So when you tell little jimmy not to put the magnetic spheres and the marbles in his mouth lest he swallow them, you take care to explain that a magnetic sphere is not a marble because you were not warning a child, you were authoring a scientific paper.

    It appears people regurgitate what they read in a couple atheist books without thinking because I always run into the same sophistry. I suggest reading stuff from different atheists.

    > basic math which greeks already knew
    Did the guy fail to build the ark because of that .1415..?

    • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday September 28 2017, @05:03PM (1 child)

      by Grishnakh (2831) on Thursday September 28 2017, @05:03PM (#574433)

      Did the guy fail to build the ark because of that .1415..?

      What ark? There was never any such thing, you idiot.

      • (Score: 2) by marcello_dl on Thursday September 28 2017, @07:41PM

        by marcello_dl (2685) on Thursday September 28 2017, @07:41PM (#574503)

        Nope, it does not work like that.

        If you say something is inconsistent you accept the premises as true and necessarily imply from them the absurd. Else, you reject everything and then the rationality of it all is irrelevant to you. "There is an entity pertaining the supernatural dimension and it does not care about us, where caring is the human concept that most closely resembles the situation". Perfectly rational theology, does not make it anymore true or false than any other religion.

        For example, "the bible lumps mammals together with birds therefore it is false".
        Objection, I would do exactly the same when it is practical to do so. Example, "kid don't touch mushrooms you get poisoned and die". Not all mushrooms are nasty. Who cares? As long as I conveyed an easy to remember and useful advice, I am satisfied. If the kid grows up to be a mushroom expert is not relevant at the time.

        So, for you that is enough to void it all, for me it isn't. Whether we believe the bible or not is irrelevant.