A Woman Warrior.

• Position: VIKINGS - Brief article

Move over Daenerys--there's a new warrior princess in town. Researchers have concluded that a Viking warrior buried with full military honors in the 10th century wasn't a man as previously thought, but a woman. When the grave was first unearthed in Birka, Sweden, in 1889, it contained horses, weapons, and other items of high social and military standing. Because the Vikings were a patriarchal society, everyone assumed the warrior was male. But scientists recently re examined the bones using DNA testing and confirmed the fighter's gender as female. "She was an elite," says...