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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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:04PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:04PM (#566794)

    No, AC is right, you're a reflexive idiot. You have an image in your mind that covers a very large group of people, we call such images stereotypes. People who regularly use stereotypes as the 100% true version of reality are what we call "morons".

    For the opposite version of your stupidity: "all Republicans are racist Nazis!"

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:19PM (1 child)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:19PM (#566805) Homepage Journal

    People who cannot tell the difference between the proper use of a generalization and the inability to see gradations and exceptions are bigger morons though.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @06:38PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @06:38PM (#566902)

      Glad to know you consider yourself a massive moron beyond doubt. Didn't think you had the capability for such self-reflection.