Norwegian archaeologists exhume the body of a Viking queen on Monday Sept. 10 2007, hoping to solve a riddle about whether a woman buried with her 1,200 years ago was a servant killed to be a companion into the afterlife, or if the two women in the grass-covered Oseberg mound in the county of Vestfold in south Norway might be a royal mother and daughter who died of the same disease and were buried together in 834 AD. A DNA test of the two bodies will determine the result. (AP Photo/ Peder Gjersoe / SCANPIX)
Archaeologists exhume the body of a Viking queen, hoping to solve a riddle about whether a woman buried with her 1,200 years ago was a servant killed to be a companion into the afterlife, at the Oseberg mound in Norway September 10, 2007. REUTERS/Peder Gjersoe/Scanpix Norway
A filer from 1904 shows the Oseberg viking ship after the famous long boat was found at Oseberg in Sem, near Toensberg, southern Norway, in 1904. Archaeologists exhumed the body of a Viking queen on Monday, hoping to solve a riddle about whether a woman buried with her 1,200 years ago was a servant killed to be a companion into the afterlife. (Scanpix Scanpix/Reuters)
Viking Queen Ping!.............
Years ago, in a Copenhagen museum, we saw the skeleton of a very tall man with strawberry blond hair, lying in a small boat. I don’t remember any details about him or where he had been found but obviously he had had a fine burial.
Just great. Confuse them even more. Why didn't they just write a note?
How interesting! I’d like to know what they find out about these two women!
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Not one of these Vikings, I guess...
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They had aluminum coffins back then.
got a technical question, if she was in norway when she died, how does that make her a viking? not all norse/scandenavian at that time were vikings, only those that left to seek riches using their longboats and what not. while royalty can be assumed due to the elaborate burial, a viking she may not be. i havent read anything actually linking her to that status.