'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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Latter true in general+needs bearing in mind, but not sure burial truly gender blind: a statement being made, as such burials seem unusual >
> both here & England, + not only weapons etc but also apparently 'male' costume. Caveats def important, but still most intriguing burial :)
Heard this Germanic myth?Small tribe constantly avoiding war with larger tribes to escape annihilation. Finally they clash with larger tribe
Night before battle king dreams. Meets woden calls on him to favour his tribe in battle, but woden refuses, states whoever is braver will...
win the day. Queen dreams, meets Frigg goddess of foresight. Frigg tells queen to ensure army arrives at battlefield at dawn with rising...
sun at their backs. Also all the women of the tribe must attend, let their hair down & fix their locks to cover their chins. Queen wakes,
tells king. Immediately they do as Frigg instructed. Tribe arrives at battlefield at dawn, rising sun at their backs, holding high ground
with all the women armed, long hair fixed to cover their chins. Woden arrives with the larger enemy expecting victory. Then woden looks up
and sees on horizon silhouetted against rising sun thousands of bearded warriors ready to fight. Immediately woden gives the field to the
smaller tribe & the battle is won without any blood spilt. Thus battle is won by fooling woden with 'bearded' women warriors. I think this
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