Now, over 130 years later, DNA tests have shown that this high-ranking Viking warrior was actually a woman. "Though some Viking women buried with weapons are known, a female warrior of this ...

Female Viking warriors aren't a myth. DNA tests show a high-ranking Viking found in a 10th-century grave was a woman.

Gender Reveal: Ancient Viking Warrior Was a Woman, DNA Analysis Shows. Published Sep 11, 2017 at 12:59 PM EDT Updated Sep 11, 2017 at 1:54 PM EDT.

A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE. Her DNA tells another, more detailed story. “The Viking warrior female showed genetic affinity to present-day inhabitants of the British Islands (England and Scotland), the ...

Facial reconstruction of the possible Viking warrior woman who was found in Norway. National Geographic. Al-Shamahi says that since the DNA analysis of the Birka warrior was published, pieces of ...

Theirs is the first genetic proof that at least some Viking women were warriors. The shieldmaiden, whose teeth identify her as being at least 30, also appeared to be of high status.

In 2017, a group of researchers in Sweden did a genetic analysis on the bones of a warrior Viking, long assumed to be male. However, the results showed that the individual had XX chromosomes ...

Yara Greyjoy isn’t the only bad woman warrior sailing the seas. A Swedish grave from the 10th century A.D. that contained the remains of a powerful Viking warrior, horses and weapons was beli… ...

“The emotional lure of the woman warrior, especially in the Viking Age, is too strong for reasoned argument,” she wrote in a blog post Sept. 9. “They want the woman to be a warrior, ...

On an island not far from what's now Stockholm, Sweden, a trading settlement called Birka was established around 750 CE. It's thought to have become the first real urban center in Scandinavia ...

The grave of a Viking warrior has been revealed beyond reasonable doubt to belong to a woman, challenging our understanding of ancient societies. The burial site of the warrior, first discovered ...