Viking queen exhumed to solve mystery

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 9/10/07 | Alister Doyle

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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)

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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

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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)

[Red Badger]

Viking Queen Ping!.............

[Ditter]

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.

[WrightOnTarget]

Here's what the archaeologists saw when they opened the casket:

[NormsRevenge]

lol,, there ain’t a mound big enough to keep that thing planted. ;-)

[blam]

Oseberg Ship

[Lijahsbubbe]

The archaeologists placed a Norwegian 20 crown coin -- dated 2007 and with a picture of the prow of the Oseberg ship on one side -- in the sarcophagus to show any future generations when the grave had been disturbed.

Just great. Confuse them even more. Why didn't they just write a note?

[SuziQ]

How interesting! I’d like to know what they find out about these two women!

[NormsRevenge]

any bets how long that coin stays there? 10 crown, say? ;-)

[Fatuncle]

This is a post about digging up a queen, not a vampire. Please stay on thread. You’ve frightened the dogs.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

I can already see the spin “Viking Queen and her lover”.

[SunkenCiv]

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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.

Not one of these Vikings, I guess...

[CholeraJoe]

20 Kroner is $3.40 US.

[bannie]

oooooooooOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo

They had aluminum coffins back then.

[ken21]

wonder if she had red hair?

[SunkenCiv]

I think Eric did, so maybe... ;’)

[rbosque]

A bump for my Nordic friends!