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For more than a century, archaeologists and historians have assumed that the remains of a person found buried along with arms and horses in one of the most spectacular graves discovered in the Viking Age town of Birka, in Sweden, belonged to a man. Turns out they were wrong. Osteology- and DNA tests now show that that he has always been a she, and she was most likely a powerful military leader.
"Viking warrior found in Sweden was a woman, researchers confirm" -Source
“You can’t reach such a high (military) position without having warrior experience, so it’s reasonable to believe that she took part in battles.”
Hedenstierna-Jonson described it as a fantastic find, but said it is unlikely to completely up-end historians’ view of the Viking society as being patriarchal, mainly constituting of male warriors.
originally posted by: crayzeed
To be a good leader you don't have to be a muscler. The best muscle to be a leader is between your ears. So a woman need not be a physical warrior, Though that would be more impressive to her enemy. but a woman non the less.
One of the graves, originally excavated in the 1880s, was particularly noteworthy for both its position — on a prominent terrace adjacent to what had been a garrison — and for its grave goods . . .
The grave, archaeologists believed, belonged to a high-ranking warrior. Although the individual buried in the grave was assumed to be male based on the grave goods, some researchers argued that the skeleton belonged to a woman.