Since the late 1880s, archaeologists had viewed the “Birka warrior” through this lens textbooks had listed the grave as belonging to a man, but not because the bones themselves said so. And Zori notes that numerous Viking sagas, such as the 13th-century Saga of the Volsungs, tell of “shield-maidens” fighting alongside male warriors.īut some archaeologists had considered these female warriors to be merely mythological embellishments-a belief colored by modern expectations of gender roles. One early tenth-century Irish text tells of Inghen Ruaidh (“Red Girl”), a female warrior who led a Viking fleet to Ireland. Viking lore had long hinted that not all warriors were men. “ goes to the heart of archaeological interpretation: that we’ve always mapped on our idea of what gender roles were.” “It was held up before as kind of the ‘ideal’ Viking male warrior grave,” says Baylor University archaeologist Davide Zori, who wasn’t involved with the research.
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