the female warrior moved from an undetermined homeland to Birka. "The individual in grave BJ581 is the first confirmed female high-ranking Viking warrior," Hedenstierna-Jonson and colleagues conclude.

The warrior was, in fact, female. And not just any female ... More than 3,000 Viking graves have been discovered encircling Birka, in central-western Sweden, but only about 1,100 have been ...

SEE ALSO: DNA confirms Viking remains belonged to a female military leader The ... are not common in the inhumation burials at Birka" so either the "warriors" were such good fighters that they ...

The number and quality of the artifacts indicate that these women, like the Birka Warrior, were high-status members of Viking society. PHOTOS: KIRSTEN HELGELAND, MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY (ANIMAL ...

Starting in the eighth century, the town of Birka was a thriving trade center ... For instance, no other tombs with clear Viking warrior women have ever been discovered, the researchers wrote ...

A 2019 paper called “Viking warrior women? Reassessing Birka chamber grave Bj.581,” published in the journal Antiquity, dug into this further. The study, penned by the same team that wrote the ...

Today, Birka is known as the site of one of the ... Although there are stories about female Viking warriors, their existence has been debated. “There are few text sources describing women ...

Women could have been warriors during the Viking age, whether or not the Birka woman fought alongside men, says archaeologist Marianne Moen of the University of Oslo. Research over the past 30 ...

Surrisi (The Unofficial Lola Bay Fan Club) delivers an extensively researched work about the finding—and its scientific ramifications—of the 1,000-year-old Viking town of Birka. In 1878 ...

“The female Viking warrior was part of a society that dominated 8th to 10th century northern Europe,” the study concludes. “Our results — that the high-status grave Bj 581 on Birka was the ...

“The Bones of Birka”: by C. M ... Surrisi’s book, subtitled “Unraveling the Mystery of a Female Viking Warrior,” packs a lot of information into just 156 pages, not counting a glossary ...