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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: 1, Flamebait) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:40PM (4 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:40PM (#566827) Homepage Journal

    Read his post again without your panties bunched up your ass. He was talking about feminists not all women.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 12 2017, @05:07PM (1 child)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday September 12 2017, @05:07PM (#566849) Journal

    Read his previous posts without your jockstrap tied tightly 'round your eyes and looped under your beak like some freaky avian BDSM slave; she has quite often dumped on *all* cis women ("cisgender hunnies") in the past and has been known to conflate them with feminists, and all feminists with the TERF brigade, sometimes in the very same post. Ironically, this very same sin of overgeneralization is what she accuses others of.

    And yes, that is a she. I don't get the whole trans thing either, but there is enough evidence in the form of in vivo and cadaver brain imagery and dissections to show that trans people have different brain structures than we do and they're not faking it or insane. It seems to be a particular manifestation of some sort of body-image integrity disorder.

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    • (Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday September 12 2017, @05:35PM

      by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Tuesday September 12 2017, @05:35PM (#566868) Journal

      Clarification on the Hunnies thing. I see I failed with that one, and it did not adequate capture all that I had hoped it would.

      What I had in mind was disgust levied equally at men and women. At men, because how disrespectful do you have to be to half the planet's population to believe they perpetually need some guy's protection (and only a guy's protection, and not only that, but the speaker's protection against other guys, because the speaker is often the One Good Man). At women, because how the crap can somebody be happy being somebody else's Hunny?!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @06:36PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @06:36PM (#566899)

    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

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday September 12 2017, @07:33PM (#566931) Journal

      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.

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