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In 1878, archaeologists found one of the most famous Viking warrior graves ever discovered — weapons, horses, a tactical game board. They identified the warrior as male. That identification stood for 130 years.
In 2017, DNA analysis proved the warrior was a woman.
But that was only the beginning. A landmark 2020 study sequenced 442 Viking Age genomes from across Europe and the North Atlantic — and what they found rewrote the story of who the Vikings actually were. Their diversity. Their genetic origins. And what they left in the DNA of millions of people alive today.
This video covers: the Birka female warrior (Bj 581), the 2020 Nature study findings, Icelandic founding genetics, the Varangian eastern routes, and what Viking Age ancestry looks like in modern British, Irish, and Icelandic populations.
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