The Briefing Room

General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => History => Topic started by: Gefn on November 02, 2019, 08:46:57 pm

Title: Meet Erika the Red: Viking women were warriors too, say scientists
Post by: Gefn on November 02, 2019, 08:46:57 pm

Think of a Viking warrior and you probably imagine a fearsome, muscular, bearded man. Well, think again. Using cutting-edge facial recognition technology, British scientists have brought to life the battle-hardened face of a fighter who lived more than 1,000 years ago. And she’s a woman.

The life-like reconstruction, which challenges long-held assumptions that Viking warrior heroes such as Erik the Red left their women at home, is based on a skeleton found in a Viking graveyard in Solør, Norway, and now preserved in Oslo’s Museum of Cultural History. The remains had already been identified as female, but her burial site had not been considered a warrior grave “simply because the occupant was a woman”, according to archaelogist Ella Al-Shamahi.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/02/viking-woman-warrior-face-reconstruction-national-geographic-documentary (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/02/viking-woman-warrior-face-reconstruction-national-geographic-documentary)

Title: Re: Meet Erika the Red: Viking women were warriors too, say scientists
Post by: Gefn on November 02, 2019, 08:47:25 pm

I can’t wait to see this tomorrow night on tv  :2popcorn:

Title: Re: Meet Erika the Red: Viking women were warriors too, say scientists
Post by: PeteS in CA on November 02, 2019, 09:09:36 pm

Cora the Barbarian?

Title: Re: Meet Erika the Red: Viking women were warriors too, say scientists
Post by: sneakypete on November 02, 2019, 10:50:00 pm

Quote

The life-like reconstruction, which challenges long-held assumptions that Viking warrior heroes such as Erik the Red left their women at home,

Who here every thought that? Anyone?

Who did this author thing "Shield Maidens" were,homo Vikings?

Title: Re: Meet Erika the Red: Viking women were warriors too, say scientists
Post by: sneakypete on November 02, 2019, 10:55:16 pm

Quote from: Gefn on November 02, 2019, 08:47:25 pm

I can’t wait to see this tomorrow night on tv  :2popcorn:

@Gefn

I can hear the promo now,"Just when you thought war couldn't get any more viscious...."

Title: Re: Meet Erika the Red: Viking women were warriors too, say scientists
Post by: Gefn on November 02, 2019, 10:59:36 pm

Quote from: sneakypete on November 02, 2019, 10:55:16 pm

@Gefn

I can hear the promo now,"Just when you thought war couldn't get any more viscious...."

Lol

@sneakypete