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A DNA analysis has proven that there were female Viking warriors, so people shouldn’t jump to conclusions about the roles of men and women in ancient societies, scientists say.
Experts had previously assumed a “well-furnished warrior grave” from the Viking era in Sweden was the burial site of a man, according to a study in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, but a new genetic analysis on the skeletal remains inside suggest the warrior was a woman.
This was common knowledge with many people, from that part of the world. When threatened with invasion, both men and women among my Celtic ancestors also took up arms and fought together. They were all trained for it and in the use of horses, from childhood. To this day, a wise man doesn't mess around with Nordic or Scots women.
The Amazons were a real group of women warriors among the Scythians, too. This has been known by Russian archaeologists since the 60's sometime, but only got confirmed by Western scholars after the USSR crashed, and Russia opened up to foreign researchers.
It makes sense to have the women fight. As a woman, I am at the risk of getting a new master if my tribe loses to the other side. I would rather know my devil than not know my devil.
This mainly happens in tribal cultures where every hand is needed for survival. In larger civilizations women doesn't exist in armies except in rare cases.
Judith Jesch says, "I have always thought (and to some extent still do) that the fascination with women warriors, both in popular culture and in academic discourse, is heavily, probably too heavily, influenced by 20th- and 21st-century desires."
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