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
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…
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