Viking 'Warrior' Presumed to Be a Man Is Actually a Woman

A Viking 'warrior' buried in the Middle Ages in what is now Sweden was actually a woman, a new genetic analysis reveals.

High‑Ranking Viking Warrior Long Assumed to Be Male Was ...

But when researchers announced in 2017 that the warrior was actually female, they received a lot of pushback—surely the archaeologists had made ...

The Viking warrior who turned out to be a woman - BBC

For more than 100 years, a high-ranking Viking warrior was assumed to be male. Dr Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson has been studying the grave found in the ...

Ancient Viking Warrior May Have Been Transgender, Researchers ...

Again, I'm not dismissing the idea that this person was trans. But the only reason they were assumed to be male in the first place was the ...

Researchers Reaffirm Remains in Viking Warrior Tomb Belonged to ...

Much of the justification for the proposed warrior's misidentification as biologically male stems from past archaeologists' frequent assignment ...

Ancient Viking warrior may have been transgender, researchers ...

Ancient Viking warrior given a hero's burial may have actually been 'transgender, non-binary or gender fluid', researchers say · Share · Save for ...

DNA proves fearsome Viking warrior was a woman | Science | AAAS

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Plot twist: Viking warrior remains assumed to be a man's actually ...

Then a DNA test confirmed it: the individual in grave Bj 581 did not carry a Y-chromosome and is the first confirmed female high-ranking Viking ...

Were there any female warriors in the Viking Age? Why do ... - Quora

First off, a Valkyrie is a mythical demigod that gathered worthy dead men to take them to Valhalla. Shieldmaiden, however, meant exactly what it ...

Birka grave Bj 581 - Wikipedia

Birka grave Bj 581 held a female Viking warrior buried with weapons during the 10th century in Birka, Sweden. Although the remains had been thought to be of ...

Famous Viking Warrior Was a Woman, DNA Reveals

As National Geographic magazine reported in its March 2017 cover story on Vikings, that all changed when Stockholm University bioarchaeologist ...

How the female Viking warrior was written out of history | Archaeology

It was the grave of a Viking warrior and naturally was assumed to be a male. It was designated, and continues to be referred to, as Bj 581 ...

Viking warrior woman? DNA test reveals female remains in military ...

A DNA analysis shows that a 10th-century skeleton, long presumed to be that of a male Viking warrior, is actually female. "I do think that it ...

DNA Suggests Viking Women Were Powerful Warriors | HISTORY

As Viking warriors were all assumed to be male, the trove of weapons and paraphernalia found with the skeleton seemed to leave little question ...

Could some Viking warriors have been trans men, book asks?

But DNA analysis confirmed in 2017 it was a female warrior. "In a sense it does not really matter whether the person in the Birka grave was a ...

Researchers confirm Viking warrior found in grave was actually a ...

... Viking warrior, long thought to be male, has been confirmed as female, researchers say ... actually a woman ... assumed to be male. In 2017, however ...

Photos: Viking warrior is actually a woman - Live Science

In 2017, a group of researchers in Sweden did a genetic analysis on the bones of a warrior Viking, long assumed to be male. However, the ...

Viking Warrior Women: An Archaeodeath Response Part 1

It was discovered in the 19th-century excavations at Birka by Hjalmar Stolpe (in 1877). The Bj581 chamber grave contained a skeleton in a flexed ...

DNA Test Reveals Powerful Viking Warrior Was Actually A Woman

A study of the skeletal remains of an influential Viking military leader ― who was long-assumed to be a man ― revealed that she is actually ...

Warrior buried in a Swedish Viking grave was actually female

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