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DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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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• Re:DNA is not evidence /s (Score: 2, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday September 12 2017, @03:03PM

  by c0lo (156) on Tuesday September 12 2017, @03:03PM (#566757) Journal

  Bloody regressive left, always after my dough.

  You're - regressive or not - right again, no surprise for me here.
  Now, would you be surprised to hear I'm preferring to be after your yeasty dough than in front of it?

  (grin)

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