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Mysterious medieval warrior found in Viking graveyard wasn't actually a Viking
Fox News ^
| 07/25/2019
| Chris Ciaccia |
Posted on 07/25/2019 8:12:55 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A mysterious female warrior discovered in a Viking grave in Denmark was originally thought to be a Viking. But now, researchers have made a surprising discovery about this fierce warrior who died more than 1,000 years ago she wasn't actually a Viking.
According to researchers at Poland's Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the woman was likely Slavic, emanating from a region in Eastern Europe that is now present-day Poland.
Dr. Gardeła added that the revelation is not all that surprising. "During the Middle Ages, this island was a melting pot of Slavic and Scandinavian elements."
Although the woman's grave was the only one to have a weapon, an axe, researchers did find an Arab coin from the 10th century, adding further proof of its age.
Despite the indication the woman was likely a warrior, it's unclear how she died.
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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; archeology; denmark; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; medieval; middleages; rapedbycossacks; viking; warior; warrior
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posted on
07/25/2019 8:12:55 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/25/2019 8:13:13 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
07/25/2019 8:16:27 AM PDT
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z3n
To: z3n
First thing I thought of when I saw the headline.
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posted on
07/25/2019 8:17:17 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
A mysterious female warrior discovered in a Viking grave... Hmm. Female Thor? Sounds like the back story to a bad Marvel movie
But possibly good eye candy?
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posted on
07/25/2019 8:18:32 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
To: Magnum44
Shouldn’t that be “Thoress”? Certainly not “Ms. Thor.”
To: Magnum44
You know she had to be a hottie, my Viking ancestors never brought back the ugly ones.
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posted on
07/25/2019 8:25:52 AM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(Youth, speed and energy can always be overcome with experience and treachery.)
To: z3n
The movie was a flop, but I loved it!.........😁
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posted on
07/25/2019 8:29:06 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
To: BenLurkin
Because of technical limitations I have don’t use links. Because of that the island where this grave site is not identified. But this person might be from the Kashube slavic group one of the of three that compose today’s Poland who settled along the Baltic coast and the Pomeranian peninsula.
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posted on
07/25/2019 8:35:48 AM PDT
by
mosesdapoet
(mosesdapoet aka L,J,Keslin posting for the record hoping some might read and pass around)
To: ProtectOurFreedom; Magnum44
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posted on
07/25/2019 8:36:40 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
whats the evidence that she’s some hardened warrior? That there was an axe in the grave?
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posted on
07/25/2019 8:36:57 AM PDT
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jarwulf
To: BenLurkin
How do they know she didn’t identify as a man? Maybe she was woman in biology only.
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posted on
07/25/2019 8:39:45 AM PDT
by
redangus
To: ProtectOurFreedom
You’ve waisted an opportunity for a perfectly good pun.
Should be Thorax...
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posted on
07/25/2019 8:43:57 AM PDT
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null and void
(The Democratic Party is back to loving workers but hating employers. A winning formula I'm sure.)
To: BenLurkin
Didn’t the Vikings have a custom of burying or sacrificing (funeral pyre) the warriors’ wife once he was dead?
Maybe that’s what happened here. Notice, they saw no apparent injuries that would have caused her death.
To: BenLurkin
“Viking” is not a race or ethnicity: it’s an occupation.
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07/25/2019 9:01:10 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(It's the guitar solo! Everybody polka!!!)
To: jarwulf
It could mean her job was chopping firewood. For the kitchen. For baking cookies.
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posted on
07/25/2019 9:06:55 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: null and void
LOL...DANG IT! How did I miss that one? Nicely played!
It was so obvious, too!
To: ProtectOurFreedom
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posted on
07/25/2019 9:26:42 AM PDT
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null and void
(The Democratic Party is back to loving workers but hating employers. A winning formula I'm sure.)
To: BenLurkin
Not a Viking warrior...just a tiny little woman with skinny little arms, thinking that she’s the Mighty Thor.
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07/25/2019 9:41:51 AM PDT
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Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
To: jarwulf
"That there was an axe in the grave"
She may have been in the service/trades and still had one more axe to grind before her departure.
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07/25/2019 10:07:27 AM PDT
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Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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