A skeleton, found in the grave of a viking warrior (the Birka Warrior) was believed, for about 100 years, to be a male because it was surrounded by weapons and other article of a war leader.
Recently, however, DNA testing proves that it is the skeleton of a female.
So, ladies, don't let anybody tell you that you can't do what a tough man can do.
Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.
I saw that yesterdayit's cool. Wonder how many others they've just assumed are male might turn out to be female too.
You remind me of the babe
What babe?
The babe with the power
What power?
The Power of voodoo
Who do?
You do!
Do what?
Remind me of the babe!
Army of Darkness: Guardians of the Chat
Viking Age Scandinavia was generally a pretty good time to be a (free) woman. You could fight, be buried as a warrior, own your own land, get divorced and even end up an earl in certain circumstances. All while women in the rest of Europe were pretty much chattel being traded via marriage.
Unless they were poor, in which case the rich guys just raped them.Originally Posted by Rae'ya
Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.
Here's a picture of the burial:
And, of course (because you can't make actual fer-sure statements based on the available evidence) the exact reason why the woman was buried as she was is open to conjecture.
Applying Occam's Razor, though, I'd say she probably was a warrior, until additional info comes in.
Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.
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