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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, Informative) by ants_in_pants on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:19PM (2 children)

    by ants_in_pants (6665) on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:19PM (#566806)

    That man is made of straw!

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:34PM (1 child)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:34PM (#566821) Homepage Journal

    I think you need to google that term before you try using it again.

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    • (Score: 1) by ants_in_pants on Tuesday September 12 2017, @06:08PM

      by ants_in_pants (6665) on Tuesday September 12 2017, @06:08PM (#566886)

      I was using it correctly.

      straw man
      ˌstrô ˈman/
      noun
      noun: strawman
      1.
      an intentionally misrepresented proposition that is set up because it is easier to defeat than an opponent's real argument.

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