Born: Unknown (900s), Sweden (assumed)
Died: Unknown (900s)
Country most active: Sweden
Also known as: Birka grave Bj 581
Nancy Marie Brown on Viking Women transcript
The following is excerpted from Infinite Women creator Allison Tyra’s book Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work.
The Viking warrior interred in Birka, Sweden combined both examples of misogyny—first, it was assumed that she was a man for almost 130 years (discovered in 1889) until DNA tests proved otherwise in 2017. Then, despite being buried with several artefacts that indicate she was a high-ranking warrior, several historians suddenly refused to believe she was a warrior—a supposition they had no problem with whatsoever when they thought she was male.
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