Warrior Queen Is Unearthed (1,500 Years Old - Anglo-Saxon)

Linconshire Echo ^ | 9-20-2003

[VadeRetro]

Boadicea was a Celt. (Not to get that subject going again.) Celts and Anglo Saxons were not the same people and did not get along well at all during the period this tall lady lived.

[blam]

"After watching a special on one of the cable channels on "The Search for the historical King Arthur."

I saw this one myself.

We know very little about the Dark Ages...it was a worldwide event around 540AD. This is about the same time King Arthur is believed to have died.

[solzhenitsyn]

Oops! I misread the story! It was the second woman whose feet were tied together. It makes sense now -- just awfully sad.

[blam]

Celtic Found To Have Ancient Roots

[blam]

English And Welsh Are Races Apart

[Xenalyte]

Warrior queen this, warrior queen that. It's warrior PRINCESS, y'all. Don't make me come over there and straighten y'all out!

[Xenalyte]

Ah, you fell for my "buried for 1,500 years" routine! Gotcha!

[wolficatZ]

[VadeRetro]

The research supports the idea that Celtic Britain underwent a form of ethnic cleansing by Anglo-Saxons invaders following the Roman withdrawal in the fifth century.

Genetic tests show clear differences between the Welsh and English

Yeah! If this lady and her unfortunate household staff are Anglo-Saxon, calling her Boadicea is like confusing Custer with Powhatan.

[annyokie]

Thanks! She alerted me.

[LiteKeeper]

SPOTREP

[RedMonqey]

"The woman was wearing an amber necklace and had her feet bound together with rope"


Post mortem chastity belt?

[wolficatZ]

 

 

 

(woof!)

[StoneColdTaxHater]

Watch, someone will swear she is an ancestor of Hillary

[mitch5501]

nice picture

your tagline is my no 1 favourite album....good grief that means there's 2 of us!

"it is dark...so dark..."

[R. Scott]

…and secondly the fact that she was buried with weapons that are usually connected with men.

While the Celts didn’t welcome the invasion of the Germanic tribes, the lore of the Germanic tribes – including the Angles and Saxons – were similar to the Celts.
In Celtic lore the female warrior is a popular theme. The greatest Teachers of Arms were women. The Celtic goddess of martial arts was Scatha, who taught the great Irish warrior Cuchulain. Germanic sagas also have the theme of great female warriors with Brünnehilde, and Freya was not only a fertility goddess but also goddess of war.

[Cacique]

bttfl

[VadeRetro]

There was plenty of cross-cultural diffusion between the Celts and Germans because of contacts between various tribes of each group. Julius Caesar describes the situation pretty well in his Gallic War.

[blam]

"There was plenty of cross-cultural diffusion between the Celts and Germans because of contacts between various tribes of each group. Julius Caesar describes the situation pretty well in his Gallic War."

Do you remember FReeper 'LostTribe' (before he was banned), he believed that the Northern Tribe of Israel were the Celts.

[VadeRetro]

... and the Germans were the Assyrians, against every shred of evidence we have. Yes. That's what I meant when I said I didn't want to start that up again!