'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
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Procopius on a 6thC English princess who led an army overseas to the mouth of Rhine to punish her faithless fiancé: https://archive.org/stream/L217ProcopiusVHistoryOfTheWars7.368.GothicWar/L217-Procopius%20V%20History%20of%20the%20Wars%207.36-8.%20%28Gothic%20War%29#page/n263/mode/2up …
Don't disagree! There are AS burials of (probable) women with weapons, fwiw, but likewise has been questioned if simply symbolic or... :)
Have you read Nicola Griffith's Hild? She has Hild (Hilda of Whitby) leading a warband as a young woman, in a pretty persuasive scenario.
No, but sounds intriguing! Thanks!
Surely Taunton was conquered by Wessex in 710 as part of the westward push against Dumnonia. Was there a revolt in 722?
Yep :) The Chronicle just mentions the event but Henry of Huntingdon says was in the context of a rebellion.
Thanks for your reply. I want to learn a lot more about the westward expansion of Wessex during that period.
I wonder how much of this stems from Steppe influence? The Scythian and Sarmatian cultures had a significant percentage of female warriors.
It's very likely this brushed off on some of the Eastern Germanics and may have generally been seen as more acceptable as a whole.
Even if it still remained exceptional. We're talking less than 1% in Viking vs. 20-30% in Scythian.
That's about the same in ASE too, fwiw... Interesting idea, though I would think could emerge organically without influence too?
Maybe. Like the article argues, Status could preclude gender discrimination. It's know the Sarmatians had a heavy influence on the (1/2)
Slavs and various Eastern Gothic groups though. The Iranic loanwords are rampant through their languages.
Because she led an army doesn't mean she did any fighting. She may have done of course, but we should be careful of this vague terms
As I said to someone earlier on here, don't disagree, but it is nonetheless interesting and worth noting :)
The problem I have is the narrative which attempts to make dark ages culture more similar to our own
It's fine for the dark ages (so called) to be different from our own. Do we really need female vikings to encourage women today?
I've been to Taunton. *Totally* overdue for a bloody good sacking.
Please start by sacking the MP there!
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