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DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman

posted by martyb on Tuesday September 12 2017, @11:05AM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 12 2017, @05:04PM (5 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday September 12 2017, @05:04PM (#566845) Journal

    Sorry but nothing could make me "go straight" any more than anything could make you "go gay." It doesn't work like that. There just isn't any attraction to men here; nothing personal, but you all just don't look or smell (pheremones) right to me. I'm not grossed out by the idea, just about as turned on by men as by furniture or buildings.

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  • (Score: 2) by jelizondo on Tuesday September 12 2017, @06:09PM (1 child)

    by jelizondo (653) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 12 2017, @06:09PM (#566887) Journal

    just about as turned on by men as by furniture or buildings

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @03:47PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @03:47PM (#567257)

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday September 12 2017, @06:42PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday September 12 2017, @06:42PM (#566906)

    > just about as turned on by men as by furniture or buildings.

    Have you by any chance heard of Rule 34?

  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday September 13 2017, @03:43PM (1 child)

    by Bot (3902) on Wednesday September 13 2017, @03:43PM (#567253) Journal

    > any more than anything could make you "go gay."

    I guess you forgot

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb [wikipedia.org]

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    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday September 14 2017, @05:01AM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday September 14 2017, @05:01AM (#567646) Journal

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