'A female Viking warrior confirmed by genomics'; new open access article by Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson et al :) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.23308/full …pic.twitter.com/OjUgguQZzq
History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.
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'A female Viking warrior confirmed by genomics'; new open access article by Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson et al :) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.23308/full …pic.twitter.com/OjUgguQZzq
Powerful women in early med church & royal dynasty. Military women only viking phenon? Only high status women? Grave gd untypical of life?
It's a good question, do weapons mean a warrior? Not necessarily, but authors do marshal other grave evidence & make interesting case. As >
> for non-Vikings, I'd say yes, definitely some AS examples, for instance...
Too quick to dismiss military gear as symbolic? Gender roles less defined in elites? Possible, if not usual for high status women to fight
Indeed: the authors make the point that weaponry often simply assumed to be non-symbolic when found with men, but symbolic with prob women >
> , & they argue this is wrong (see p. 6).
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