Posted on 02/21/2019 6:54:32 AM PST by BenLurkin
The 10th-century grave, known as Bj. 581, was first discovered on the Swedish island of Bjorko in the late 19th century. Stunning artifacts found in the grave indicated that it belonged to a high-status Viking warrior, who, for over a century, was assumed to be male.
In 2017, however, experts published the results of a DNA analysis that revealed the skeleton was female. The amazing discovery garnered a great deal of attention and sparked plenty of debate.
The warrior woman was buried in elaborate clothing and her grave contained a stunning array of weapons, including a sword, an ax, 25 armor-piercing arrows, a fighting knife, two lances and two spears. She was also buried with two horses, underlining her high status in Viking society.
Intriguingly, a bag of gaming pieces was also placed in the warrior’s lap and a gaming board was propped up beside her skeleton.
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I'm glad they explained that. It cleared thing s right up -- clear as mud. Can somebody explain the author's explanation? What's a steaming pantload of 21st century gobbledygook.
Ayra Stark?
Xena. She’s hawtt..
All I can say is watch out for we Viking women. And our Viking kitties!!
We can be real badasses when we have to be. :-)
And one box of combat quality tampons.
Translation: “She was a rich girl who liked to play dress-up as a warrior”
Like to gamble too, it appears.
Yep. Like the ones that determined there was a snowplowing gender gap, and put the main thoroughfares last on the to-be-plowed list.
It would be too simple for this guy to accept the fact that a woman could be a woman and a great warrior alsoSet against this backdrop, the team behind the study noted other Viking women likely bore arms.
“We would be very surprised if she was alone in the Viking world; other women may have taken up arms in the same seasonal or opportunistic context as many male Viking raiders,” they wrote. “A few may have risen to positions of command—indeed, the quality of the individual’s clothing, and the presence of the gaming set, implies that she may have been one of them.”
Those poor women! They had to go through life as women even though in this enlightened era today it’s possible they identified as men!
Bodicia’s daughter?
They never bothered to count the ribs?
Well, check under that chastity belt.....and all will be revealed.
Viking women have no need for snow plows. We got by without them of thousands of years.
Didn’t need them then, don’t need them now. :-)
That’ll make the Wonder Woman admirers happy.
later
Bjorhilda - Battle Bitch of the Baltic.
Lagetha!
Based on this one skeleton that we always thought was male, but recently found to be female, we conclude that everything we know about “Viking” society from every source across every discipline is actually incorrect, and Vikings were actually anti-patriarchy gender-fluid Hillary voters.
I dated a few women like that in my past! (Once)
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