The remains of a powerful viking — long thought to be a man — was in fact a real-life Xena Warrior Princess, a study released Friday reveals.
The lady war boss was buried in the mid-10th century along with deadly weapons and two horses, leading archaeologists and historians to assume she was a man, according to the findings, published in in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
Wrong.
“It’s actually a woman, somewhere over the age of 30 and fairly tall, too, measuring around [5’6″] tall ,” archaeologist Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson of Uppsala University, who conducted the study, told The Local.
And she was likely in charge.
“Aside from the complete warrior equipment buried along with her – a sword, an axe, a spear, armor-piercing arrows, a battle knife, shields, and two horses – she had a board game in her lap, or more of a war-planning game used to try out battle tactics and strategies, which indicates she was a powerful military leader,” Hedenstierna-Jonson said.”She’s most likely planned, led and taken part in battles.”
The discovery marks the first genetic proof that women were viking warriors, according to science publication Phys.org.
The viking grave was first found and excavated by Swedish archeologist Hjalmar Stolpe in the late 1800s.
But a few years ago, osteologist Anna Kjellström of Stockholm University, noticed its skeleton had fine cheekbones and feminine hip bones, researches said.
They conducted DNA-analysis and confirmed it was a female.
“This image of the male warrior in a patriarchal society was reinforced by research traditions and contemporary preconceptions. Hence, the biological sex of the individual was taken for granted,” Hedenstierna-Jonson and other researchers wrote in the report.
The research was lead by the Stockholm and Uppsala Universities.
>she had a board game on her lap, which indicates she was a powerful military leader
Anthony Martinez
>Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson >Uppsala University > Anna Kjellström >Stockholm University >Swedish I'll wait for more info.
Josiah Long
>Board Game = Powerful Military Leader
Juan Morgan
Cool. An exception to the rule.
Joshua Martinez
Skill at tafl and other board games is directly associated with military skill in the Sagas.
But realize people will either ball at this or like undermine the significance of a skeleton assumed to be a male chief turn out to be a female chief and not understand the precedent that sets.
Come back to me when you confirm that the other skeletons are females too. Also, this might explain why vikings got their shit pushed in whenever they faced off against actual armies and not just peasants.
Julian Reyes
So if DNA testing proves that 1% of buried Vikings were women, what precedence does that set to you?
Gabriel Phillips
>real-life Xena Warrior Princess
Unless she was a freak of genetics her gender alone is such a massive handicap in physical combat I fail to imagine her being even an average warrior.
Ryder Turner
>unless she was a freak of genetics she probably was
Aaron Reyes
There were at least two verified instances of women pirates (Anne Bonny and Mary Read) and Vikings weren't far off from being proto-pirates in terms of their tactics, so I can believe it.
Alexander Williams
>she had a board game in her lap, or more of a war-planning game used to try out battle tactics and strategies, which indicates she was a powerful military leader oooooooor she liked games
What is the role of women in the sagas? I honestly haven't read them
Jaxon Turner
to get pissed after their son dies and get stabbed to death by beowulf
Carson Anderson
>I put it plainly >– for I know both – >Women find only fraud in men was odin trans you guys?
Levi Price
dont have to be a tranny to know how a woman's mind works m8
Thomas Campbell
To be overly emotional and demand revenge, often sabotaging sættir (agreements on making a positive peace) in order to get their way.
Thomas Collins
Lad women in power have been known since the Sagas
Christopher Fisher
but what about that time he turned into a vǫlva?
Mason Foster
gonna need source on that my good man
Austin Stewart
its was revealed during a quarrel with loki
Adrian Reyes
gee, thanks for narrowing it down for me user
Aaron Price
In the Lokasenna.
Thomas Howard
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Ethan Watson
how much of a fucking morale blow would it be if a rival tribe captured and raped her in front of her entire village because that would be incredibly hot
Parker Russell
WE
David Green
it also might make them go berserk you never know
Thomas Ortiz
Her bone structure would have given it away if she was. She was likely a ruler, but not a warrior.
This is just trying to legitimize modern feminism by bastardizing the past.
Ayden Watson
>buried with two (2) horses and weapons of war >not a warrior oh sweetie...
Connor Rivera
Didn't they bury all of their rulers with weapons of war?
Michael Cook
would they come out and join you in raping her perhaps?
Daniel Hall
>5'6 >tall
Vikings confirmed for manlets?
Angel Cooper
no they would slay them
Jose Watson
yeah but what if you got them really, REALLY drunk?
Oliver Price
>war chief dies in battle >can't retrieve body >his wife kills herself >bury her with his stuff, we can bury him there too if we ever get his remains back
Gabriel Ward
how?
Luke Jenkins
>oh sweetie...
Go troll /pol/ with this nonsense.
114lbs, so every time you see her in that show just remember she can generate about as much power in a sword or axe as a 12 year old boy.
Henry Gutierrez
if she was a warrior wouldn't her bones be full of minor fractures and shit? Especially if she's more prone to injuries? feast with the rival tribe, get the menfolk drunk off their asses, and then have a mutual rape party. It doesnt seem that hard to me.
Aiden Turner
>kill his wife and bury her with his stuff so she can bring it to him.
Blake Gray
It's really no big deal. Shield-maidens have been known to exist for centuries. The conjecture about her being an important military leader based on the viking equivalent of a chessboard is flimsy at best however.
Christian Perry
>armor-piercing arrows Read: Arrows >a battle knife Read: Knife >a board game in her lap, or more of a war-planning game used to try out battle tactics and strategies Read: a fucking board game I really hate it when they add descriptors to words to make things seem cooler than they are. It's a woman warrior, fine, not everything in her tomb has to be 10th century tacticool.
Brody Johnson
Couldn't they find anything better to illustrate their article than some fucking Skyrim horned helmet?
Evan Foster
that is a historically ignorant scenario you blockhead
Anthony Sullivan
I was trying to be nice but yeah some cultures would absolutely do that without hesitation
Jack Russell
most of my fantasies are incredibly ignorant you jackass. Have you even heard my congolese colonization fantasy?
Caleb Jones
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Ian Price
Of course, a woman in charge of the study would glorify it.
Joseph Gray
I'm surprised they haven't found proof that she had a Muslim lover yet
Chase Lopez
For a European in the 10th century, it is quite tall; that was basically taller than the average male back then.
Levi Wright
>The examination of skeletons from different localities in Scandinavia reveals that the average height of the Vikings was a little less than that of today: men were about 5 ft 7-3/4 in.
Isaiah Perry
Weren't Vikings from Denmark and Norway? Sweden was Norse but vikings they were not.
Ayden Rodriguez
Girls are shit fighters when comapred to men and have always been. She was probably just a ruler who planned military campaigns and that wasn't too out of the ordinary.
Charles Bailey
Where are the "young priest forcibly being made a man during a viking raid by a vikingness" greentexts at?
Why did this thread have to be a weird anti-feminist /pol/ circlejerk? It had so much potential.
Nicholas Brown
Reality is more important than your fantasies.
Dominic Collins
my fantasies disagree
Jack Gomez
In some cultures, when a man died, all his possesses were buried near him, and his wife was included as part of that.
John Gray
>tfw monk >vikings raid. >try giving them gold >they pin me down. >a viking stands over me. >mocks my god, >suddenly I realize this is a girl viking, >she steps on my balls and mocks me for my vows to god and christ, >orders her men to tear off my robes >I think I'm about to be soddomized by this sick demon. >they hold me down harder, >she begins to tease my balls with her boots. >they're surprisingly soft, >all the while she calls me a pussy for following the one true god and christ our savior, insisting I follow the path of her pagan deities. >MUST RESIST >THINK PURE THOUGHTS >forces me to eat her out. >jerks me off >I cum and she kicks me in the face because she didn't say I could, >has me thrown on the boat because she was impressed nothingless. >I'm cooperative because I don't want to be sodomized.
Ryan Rogers
>you will never be bent over a pew and pegged by a big strong amazonian viking princess why even fucking live
Isaiah Lopez
>tfw no Norse princess warrior to shove her sweaty feety on my face and dick
Women can be perfectly adequate fighters. Most of the male "warriors" were just farmers with spears anyway.
Blake Perry
Can and can in general are different things. Some, a very small percentage of women can be adequate fighters. Overwhelming majority is both physically and mentally unsuited to warfare, that's why we have so few examples of female warriors in history.
David Garcia
Charlamagne was fuckin 6 feet tall
Liam Morgan
Pretty sure there are lots of women buried with weapons from the viking period and consensus is just that it indicates she was high status, not a warrior.
Andrew Allen
>aristocrat lady's burial site >she must be IRL Xena!!! what the actual fuck
Leo Cook
Reminder that Loki gave birth to a horse once.
Jacob Lopez
Fucking prove it liar
Austin Taylor
>be modern untrained weakling >can't even throw a spear >be triggered by 1k year old female warrior that would undoubtedly wipe their asses in a 1on1
All the butthurt ITT
Caleb Baker
This. Furnished burial doesn't imply anything in particular about what a person actually did in life. It's a means of competition between leading families when there is no clear source of legitimacy from above for them to appeal to, it develops in times of unclear social order as a means of aristocrats showing off. "Look how rich and powerful I am, I can afford to give all these weapons/slaves/animals/luxury goods/personal possessions to a dead person so they can lord it in the afterlife, I don't need to reuse them for later generations, I will just get new ones because I am a big pimp and can do that."
OP's article is clickbait. The Post, really?
Dominic Myers
I actually work at mcdonalds making 800k/year and I have a 13" dick faggot also she wasn't a warrior, just an aristocrat probably
Jaxon Morris
>wageslave trying to give free swedish woman shit what a surprise
These weapons are a sign of great respect and honour. Be sure that she did things to deserve it.
Landon Turner
>those wizards came from the moon yeah for her husband kek. Again, she was probably just some rando aristocrat that got buried with weapons purchased by her family.
William Gomez
yeah, it was for her husband that was not in the grave if that makes you feel better
