Female Viking warriors aren't a myth. DNA tests show a high-ranking Viking found in a 10th-century grave was a woman. Viking warrior woman confirmed by DNA testing - CNET ...

An incredible grave containing the skeleton of a Viking warrior, long thought to be male, has been confirmed as female, researchers say. The 10th-century grave, known as Bj. 581, was first ...

The first conclusive proof of a Viking warrior woman has been found in the DNA of a skeleton from ... "The individual in grave BJ581 is the first confirmed female high-ranking Viking warrior," ...

Until recently, female Viking warriors were largely the stuff of literature or mythology. Camilla, in Virgil’s Aeneid, was raised to be a huntress and was expert in the javelin and bow.

Writing on her blog, University of Nottingham professor of Viking studies Judith Jesch says, "I have always thought (and to some extent still do) that the fascination with women warriors, both in ...

Yara Greyjoy isn’t the only bad woman warrior sailing the seas. A Swedish grave from the 10th century A.D. that contained the remains of a powerful Viking warrior, horses and weapons was beli… ...

A 2019 paper called “Viking warrior women?Reassessing Birka chamber grave Bj.581,” published in the journal Antiquity, dug into this further. The study, penned by the same team that wrote the ...

Viking Age women may have wielded weapons when pregnant, sagas and ancient artifacts hint Viking Age woman was buried with her dog in an elaborate 'boat grave,' excavations reveal ...

Of the known Viking Age burials, "statistically speaking, there would be less than 1%" of women buried with weapons among graves of men buried with weapons, Gardeła told Live Science.

For more than a century after it was found, a skeleton ensconced in a Viking grave, surrounded by military weapons, was assumed to be that of a battle-hardened male. No more.The warrior was, in ...