In 1878, the Swedish archaeologist Hjalmar Stolpe opened a chamber grave at Birka, the Viking Age trading town on the island of Björkö in Lake Mälaren, and found what looked like a textbook. The occupant lay surrounded by a sword, an axe, a spear, a fighting knife, armour-piercing arrows, two shields, and the skeletons of [...] The post In the Viking Age town of Birka, Sweden, a warrior buried with two horses, a sword, an axe, arrows, two shields, and a full set of game pieces was assumed for nearly 140 years to be a man — DNA confirmed in 2017 that the warrior was a woman appeared first on Space Daily .
In the Viking Age town of Birka, Sweden, a warrior buried with two horses, a sword, an axe, arrows, two shields, and a full set of game pieces was assumed for nearly 140 years to be a man — DNA confirmed in 2017 that the warrior was a woman
