The site reflected the ideal of Viking male warrior life, or so many archaeologists had thought. New DNA analyses of the bones, however, confirm a revelatory find: the grave belonged to a woman.

Viking Warrior In Famous Grave Was A Woman The grave, archaeologists believed, belonged to a high-ranking warrior.

Famous Viking warrior burial revealed to be that of a woman HE was tall. He was powerful. The Viking warrior was buried with sword, spear, shield and battle knives. There was one problem.

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.

The burial helped set the definition of what a Viking warrior was since it was first discovered near the Swedish town of Birka in the 1880s.

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The concept of warrior women does not appear to have been as unusual as we may believe. A re-analysis of the remains of a famous Viking warrior burial in 2017 revealed that it was a woman in her 30s.