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Woman From Ancient Burial May Have Been a Viking Warrior, Brutal Head Injury Suggests
Languages: English, Spanish Researchers have identified what may be the first evidence of a Viking ... on which her head rests—it has always been assumed that she was not a warrior.
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'If it was a man, we would say that's a warrior's grave': Weapon-filled burials are shaking up what we know about women's role in Viking society
In Birka, Sweden, there is a roughly 1,000-year-old Viking ... warriors of Scandinavian folklore. One is the Nordre Kjølen burial in Solør, which had a young adult — likely a female, based on a ...
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The myth of the Viking woman warrior
In 2017, a team of Swedish archaeologists announced an exciting discovery: They had, for the first time, identified the remains of a Viking woman warrior. A DNA analysis of a Viking Age skeleton ...