(Only fair to note, btw, that Jesch a sceptic re: possibility of female warriors+considers them legendary eg. http://blog.britishmuseum.org/viking-women-warriors-and-valkyries/ …, 2014)
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen
Before I read Jesch's blog my question was about of fighting musculature evidence on bone so I was a bit sceptical already tbh. Now 50/50
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I hunk there could usefully have been discussion of his, but again perhaps isn't a clinching argument unless obv low? I suspect we should >
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @UnexpectedBag
> just about as sceptical of the 'warrior' interpretation as we would be if the burial had turned out genetically male ;)
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Original article states there are no typically feminine objects in grave. None. This has to have been done on purpose? This absence may be..
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just as important as what is there. Emphasising the incumbent is exactly like the male counterparts, an effort to ensure there is no...
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discrimination between her grave & others. Implies the woman is viewed as much of a warrior by those who buried her as the other male...
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deceased. Her compatriots emphasising a non dicriminatory point in her chosen grave gds which ppl today should mirror in assessing these...
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remains. A warriors grave like any other on the understanding that a warriors grave did not necessarily a warrior make. Though if female...
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incumbent was anything like the character below taken from late 6thC Gaul I reckon she might have been quite formidable. Gregory of Tours..pic.twitter.com/4EelXUzWEZ
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Indeed! And all good points, I think :)
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @UnexpectedBag
The more I think,the more I feel the focus of attention should be on what is not there (no feminine gds in woman's grave) than what is there
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The unbarking dog in the night time....
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